No hotel breakfast, and the Laundrette opened at 8am, so we just got up and lugged our washing down the road to the Laundrette. Set it running then went across the road for breakfast. I had a "Scottish Breakfast" which included an awful lot of food, including haggis, which I've never had before. After having tried a little black pudding the other day (which I didn't much fancy), haggis was actually quite nice .. :) Went and had Starbucks while the washing was in the dryer, then wandered back to the hotel to checkout. We didn't end up getting charged for the under the hotel parking - win!!
Looking up Montague St, Ediburgh
So we'd decided last night that we weren't going to try and see anything in Edinburgh. To do this place justice you'd really need to spend a few days here. Plus there were so many other things to see out of town. So we decided just to leave, and come back and spend a few days here on another trip, perhaps when we go to Ireland or other parts of Northern Europe.
Edinburgh Castle
So first stop was Firth of Forth, and the bridges thereover. Had to wait for little patches of sunlight to shine through between all the clouds.
Firth of Forth railway bridge
Firth of Forth railway bridge
Forth road bridge
Then headed north west. Our next stop being Doune Castle. Read: Swamp Castle and a couple of other castles from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (but not Camelot - it's only a model - shhh!!). Had a wander around the castle exterior and squeed quite a bit :) Also had a look at the river Teith behind the castle which was flowing very high - there must have been heaps of rain around here recently!
Doune Castle
Doune Castle
Doune Castle
Trojan Rabbit was just there
River Teith at the back of the castle
Continued heading north west and did a little detour out to Duke's Pass to see if we could find the quarry of Tim the Enchanter. Well we found it, but it was a twenty minute hike up the hill to where the filmed it - grunt! So got my photos and ran back down the hill again (before it started raining).
Quarry off Duke's Pass near Aberfoyle
There are some who call me.. Tim
Stopped for lunch at a little cafe on Loch Venacher. It was pretty awesome. The cheeses Stu got were epic awesome!
Loch Achray Hotel
We had lunch at this cafe on Loch Venachar
Continued on. Getting up to Glencoe was exceedingly cool. The mountains were sooo pretty. But really hard to document in the failing light and dirty windows. And then the petrol light came on in the car so didn't want to risk stopping in case we didn't make the town of Glencoe. We'll just have to go back! ;)
Loch Lubnaig
Loch Lubnaig
Hills near Kingshouse
Hills near Ardveich
Viaduct near Glenogle
Restaurant near Ardchyle
The Green Welly Stop at Tyndrum
Hills near Clifton
Hills near Auch
Hills near Auch
Lochan na h-Achlaise
Glencoe
Glencoe
Glencoe
Glencoe
So got to Fort William around 6pm-ish and checked in. Got quite amused by the crazy path we had to take to get to our room. Had some time to catch up on news feeds, and do some photo stuff. Went out around 8:30pm to get some snacks and ended up with a bottle of pinot grigio, cheese balls, toffee popcorn and ice cream. Yeah real healthy .. hrmm.. Not all consumed, some will carry on to other days...
Bleak looking Loch Linnhe
Geotagging - Day 19
Photos on the Canon: 310
Photos on the Sony: 16
Photos on the Olympus: 5
Photos on the Blackberry: 1
Photos on the Video: 23
Videos on the Video: 21
Steps walked: 11060
Pounds Spent: ?
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