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Yippee! Another tourist trap  
   

Yippee! Another tourist trap

When it came time for us to leave Loch Lomond, Gail and I sprinted for the souvenir shop where we picked up a couple essentials like Bounty candy bars, soda and a red-haired wig with a tam-o-shanter attached. We drove ever Northward from there until we reached our lunch stop in Tyndrum. Out in the middle of God's Country stood this restaurant/souvenir shop/bakery/gas station/rest stop/liquor store called the "Green Welly Stop". I ordered my 4th or 5th Shepherd's Pie of the trip along with a beer. Once I gulped that down I went over to the Scotch Shop where free samples of your choice were being given out. I tasted a couple of very smooth Scotchs which convinced me to buy the local hootch that the kilt-clad proprietor suggested. Then I sampled a chocolate and scotch liquor called "Heather Mist". Since I had already spent almost $30 on my fifth of Scotch I decided I might grab a cheaper bottle of Heather Mist elsewhere on the trip. I never learn. I spent the next week looking for the stuff and never being able to get hold of any. When you see something you want, buy it when you can because you might never get the chance again.
Day Seven (Carlisle to the Scottish Highlands)

July 19th 2006
A nice hot shower before bed helped me cool off a bit so I slept well through the night. We enjoyed a rather sumptuous buffet breakfast at the hotel. We had scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, broiled tomatos, cereals, oatmeal, orange and tomato juices and the ever-popular baked beans. In Italy and France I found most of the breakfasts pretty lacking while I've never gone wrong in Germany and Austr ... read more
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