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One last time
July 31, 2012 - Day 21: Goodbye Scotland. I’m writing this from my home computer. This morning, we got up at 5 AM (British Time) to make...
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Segways
July 30, 2012 - Day 20: Last day before we leave. We went into Oban for groceries and one last fish-and-chips, and to the Tralee Segway...
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Sunday
July 29, 2012 - Day 19: Sunday. Resting up before we leave.
Andy, Kate, Mamie, Lesley, Emma and Janet:
Lesley and Emma riding the Fe...
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A slower day…
July 28, 2012 - Day 18: A day back in Oban. We went out today to tour Dunstaffnage Castle, right down the road. We’d been to the grounds...
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Castles and Wind and Rainbows.
July 27, 2012 - Day 17: We started off from Uig, around the single track road around the northern tip of Skye. Cold and windswept is pre...
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Hogwarts Train, Skye, Uig and Fairy Glen.
July 27, 2012 - Day 16: We traveled towards the Isle of Skye today. We first stopped off at Glenfinnan, where the monument to the Jacobi...
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Mull. Staffa. Iona.
July 25, 2012 - Day 15: We visited the islands of Mull, Staffa and Iona today. To get to Staffa and Iona, you first have to take the fer...
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Ben Nevis. Glen Coe. Glen Orchy.
July 24, 2012 - Day 14: Today made up for the past few rainy days. We drove up Loch Linnhe past Stalker Castle (the other castle from Mo...
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Rain, rain, go away…
July 23, 2012 - Day 13: Vertical Rain. Just to change things up a bit.
Supposed to clear tomorrow. Ben Nevis is on the agenda.
Combi...
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Rain
July 22, 2012 - Day 12: Lots of rain today. We went into town on errands, but not much else. Lesley’s cousin Fred is visiting, and so I...
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Bridges, Castles, Ostriches, but no ordinary Rabbit!
July 21, 2012 - Day 11: We started the morning in Stirling, at the site of the 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge. We then moved up the hill...
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Stirling. Wallace.
July 20, 2012 - Day 10: Kelvingrove (Again) and the William Wallace Monument in Stirling.
The Kelvingrove Museum was so interesting we...
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Glasgow. Roller Derby.
July 19, 2012 - Day 9: Glasgow. We spent the day in Glasgow, including lunch with a fellow Roller Derby photographer, Dave McAleavy, a v...
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Travel. Rain. Landslides.
July 18, 2012 - Day 8:Travel day. We drove from Oban to Irvine today, to stay for a while with Lesley’s cousin. It poured down rain most...
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Standing Stones and Hill Forts
July 17, 2012 - Day 7: A rainy day with low hanging clouds. We drove down the coast to Kilmartin Glen, where there are the standing ston...
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Breakfast by the Falls of Lora
July 16, 2012 - I walked down to the village this morning to get breakfast. Ate at the Falls of Lora, where the tidal currents of Loch E...
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Rainy day in Oban
July 15, 2012 - Day 5: The rain returned to the area. We ate breakfast at Tesco’s, then walked through town by the harbour. We intended...
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Taynuilt Highland Games
July 14, 2012 - Day 4: We went today to the Taynuilt Highland Games. It was a sunny day, perfect for watching the games and watching dan...
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Churches and Castles
July 13, 2012 - Day 3: We started out the day at Ardchatten Priory, on the north shore of Loch Etive, The present building is not the fi...
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Beach
July 12, 2012 - Day 2: The first thing we did today was to visit Tralee Beach on Ardmucknish Bay at Benderloch.
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Jetlag
July 12, 2012 - Arrived in Scotland today. Lesley’s dad Norrie met us at the Glasgow airport, and drove us back to his house in Connel,...
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