Blogs from Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 5

Geo: 57.4767, -4.23145A las 7:30 partimos hacia Urquhart Castle, tomando la ruta panorámica, un poco intencionalmente y otro poco no tan intencional. Así que 280km después, a las 12:00 arribamos a las ruinas de este castillo que se encuentra a la orilla de Loch Ness. Tuvimos la fortuna que prácticamente todo nuestro recorrido estuvimos completamente solos en las ruinas. Solo cuando nos pusieron el filme introductorio al preguntarnos de donde veníamos nos advirtieron que la película estaba en inglés y sin subtítulos, lo cual no nos molestó, pero otra pareja comentó que era mejor así ya que ellos no hablaban "mexicano". Tras realizar el recorrido tomamos un café y nos dirigimos a Drumain na Drochaid, o Drumnanochit para los cuates, donde está el Loch Ness Center, que justo ese día ... read more

After Edinburgh I headed to Inverness, which is just north of the home to Nessie, the Loch Ness. I did'nt visit the lake because I didn't have time unfortunately. I walked the River Ness, and went to the Ness Islands, (which are just small islands on the river), walked around the town, visited some shops, and walked to the north sea. So far Inverness has been my favorite place. It was like home but with a Scotish twist. Very lovely town. Right now I am in Glasgow, just here for the night. I walked around for a bit, wondered into a park, had a crepe for dinner, havent really done much here except relax. Headed back to London tomorrow for a couple of days and then off to France. I'll try to keep everyone updated more ... read more

Day one we headed up to Inverness with a stop at south Queens ferry for the bridges of forth and firth, at which our tour guide explained the bridge we were about to drive over had a shelf life of only one more year before it died! We all held our breath as we went over and our guide played the Paulo Nutini song, Jenny don't be hasty, which was ironic as they have't started building a new bridge yet! Haha We made our next stop at the tiny town of Dunkeld which featured a stone making of a person so horrible that he raped 100's of women and got them pregnant but as he was a King's bastard son, it was generally ignored. Carol, our guide told us that if the boys touched the statue ... read more

Today was a long day on a bus. We started by checking out of our hostel around 7:15 and walking to the Royal Mile where we boarded our tour bus to see the Highlands. We don't normally like travelling by tour bus, but we really had no choice here, because we don't have a car, and the Highlands are a big place! We stopped at a few other places for photo-ops or little towns (which didn't have a whole lot of anything) just so the driver could take a break. The map above basically shows the route we took, but the highlights of the day involved visiting Glencoe - the site of the 1692 massacre of the MacDonald Clan by the Campbell Clan - and Loch Ness. The story of the MacDonald massacre goes something like ... read more

As I sit waiting for my trip to begin my mind keeps going over the last six months and how things have changed, how I ended up planning my trip and why I am sitting here writting. If I go back to March of this year my life was heading in one direction and it was full steam ahead, I now sit here wondering what is ahead of me.... Life is so incredibly unpredictable, are our lives mapped out for us with one route through the rough and smooth or do we have various routes that each of our decision lead too? Ive made a few random decisions in these last six months some of which are huge ovbiously the selling my home, leaving the city I called home, leaving the job I saw myself going ... read more