ScotlandEdinburghPrinces Street Garden55°56’48” N 3°11’51” W 22 Mac, Scotland ⋅ 🌬 39 °F
Not to be stopped by the unpredictable weather, we walked….a lot… again today! My feet are going to thank me when we finally leave Edinburgh with a car! So many cool things to see in this city. WeBaca lagi
ScotlandStirlingCausewayhead56°8’35” N 3°55’20” W 23 Mac, Scotland ⋅ 🌙 41 °F
We have left Edinburgh and rented ourselves a car! A nice car! (we basically had no choice). Rentals were ridiculously priced and very low inventory. We will just have to grin and bear it! 😆😉Baca lagi
Pengembara After a day of driving, I’m feeling better about staying in the left lane. But every intersection is its own thrill! 😳
ScotlandStirlingCausewayhead56°8’35” N 3°55’20” W
23 Mac, Scotland ⋅ 🌙 41 °F
Stirling Castle has records as far back as 1110 and is one of the largest and most historically important castles in Scotland! (So much history in-fact that I will not be going into detail 😆). ItBaca lagi
Pengembara Wow! It really is so picturesque! Beautiful day and very cool castle! 😍
ScotlandStirlingCausewayheadAbbey Craig56°8’35” N 3°55’19” W 23 Mac, Scotland ⋅ 🌙 41 °F
More Stirling Castle pictures! Just too good!! 😆
Pengembara
Always cool to see depressions in stone from years of being traveled!
Pengembara In many places in the castles you can tell they have replaced overly worn door and stair treads! But this one was still there!
ScotlandHighlandInverness57°27’38” N 4°14’3” W 24 Mac, Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 39 °F
Leaving Stirling today, we headed south a bit to see the “Kelpies”. The Kelpies are a pair of monumental steel horse-heads that stand about 98ft high. They are relatively new sculptures, but areBaca lagi
ScotlandHighlandInvernessTomnahurich57°27’38” N 4°14’2” W 25 Mac, Scotland ⋅ 🌫 39 °F
We have named our GPS system Kate. She can be quite insistent with her British accented directions and sometimes is quite wrong! Like today when she basically instructed us to take a right … downBaca lagi
Pengembara
Umm…Is that real?! …or did someone forget their painting in the middle of a field?!
ScotlandHighlandInverness57°27’38” N 4°14’2” W 25 Mac, Scotland ⋅ 🌫 39 °F
We managed a sort of self-guided tour thru part of Inverness this afternoon. We saw the oldest house still standing in Inverness and Leakey’s Bookshop, which was a highlight for me. It’sBaca lagi
Pengembara
How cute! It looks like a house that should be in your New England Christmas village! (Even has a good name for it!) ☺️
ScotlandHighlandPlockton57°20’25” N 5°38’59” W 26 Mac, Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 37 °F
We had a really nice gal (Coral), in a shop in Inverness, recommend a nearby tour to meet some highland cows! That’s been a goal of mine since… before Scotland! 😆 It also just happened to beBaca lagi
ScotlandHighlandPlockton57°20’25” N 5°38’59” W 26 Mac, Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 37 °F
The drive from Loch Ness to the coast was in many ways epic and in some ways familiar! The Highlands are somewhat barren hills and mountains covered in dark (dormant) heather. Some are dusted on topBaca lagi
ScotlandHighlandPlockton57°20’25” N 5°38’59” W 26 Mac, Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 36 °F
Our last stop of the day before arriving at our B&B for the next two nights is the Castle Eilean Donan. This little island's original castle was built in the thirteenth century and was a stronghold ofBaca lagi
Pengembara
So pretty! 😍
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Oh my gosh! I love it! ♥️
Pengembara
Is that blue in the ceiling original, or part of a restoration? Kind of an unusual color in a historical church.