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Published: October 2nd 2018
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The white things that you see are trashed refrigerators! First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Laura and Kim! Your Dad and I are sending you our love and hugs from Scotland! We hope you both have a wonderful day.
Note to questions from yesterday that others may have wondered about: The “squiggly” lines on the street in one of the pictures yesterday means “don’t even THINK about stopping here!” They are usually there in relationship to a cross walk. Also, if some of you saw the lines of numbers on that particular picture before I corrected it with a caption, that just means I missed changing the number put on that particular shot by the camera to a title. I have since corrected that if you didn’t see it. I may have done (or not done) the same in other pictures in this blog, and a keen eyed reader (thanks Vay for this catch!) may not have caught it! I’ll blame John since he is my trusty editor! Also, yes, the stone work is different on some buildings because of the different periods of time that things were added and/or repaired. It boggles the mind being from the US to realize the age of things here in Europe. In the
case of the picture of the front part of Edinburgh Castle in yesterday’s post, the front entrance was built in Victorian times to, in the minds of the Victorians, fancy up the entrance to Edinburgh Castle.
We woke up to a beautifully crisp, windy, clear morning to get ready to head to St. Andrews and Glamis Castle. We were ready to roll at our 8:15 bus loading time, well rested because we were in bed before 9:00 last night.
Our first stop was at Glamis (pronounced “Glams” Castle northward on the M90. Glamis Castle is the setting of William Shakespeare‘s play, Macbeth...but Glamis had not been built yet during the time period in which Macbeth was set! The Castle is the nicest one we have ever visited. We were not allowed to take pictures inside so you will need to Google for pictures. The same family has been there for over 600 years. It was magnificent yet very comfortable feeling. This was a highlight of the trip so far for us.
From Glamis, we headed to St. Andrews for our lunch break. We didn’t walk down to the St. Andrew’s course since we saw it last year.
We walked around town enjoying the sights and had a very nice lunch at The Kitchen Cottage. We sat with some folks from Northern Ireland and had a wonderful conversation. From there we did some more walking before going back to the bus for our drive back to our last evening in the Edinburgh area. Tonight is the last night for several in our group as they just signed in for the first part and we will be saying good by to some very nice folks tonight at our dinner. Tomorrow we will be heading to York.
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Carol L. Olsen
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St. Andrews
We were told the “old course” had 22 holes, four of which were washed away and being Scottish, decided to just go with 18.