Blogs from Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 15

Christmas in Scotland Yes I know Christmas was a while ago, but I wanted to put pictures up. Here is just a short version of what we did while there. Mark and I drove up to Perth, Scotland and spent about a week up there. We had a busy but lovely time up there. We went to see Mary Poppins on Ice at the Dundee ice arena. It was very cute. Christmas Eve was spent at Chris and Eve’s house in Dundee. It was so much fun to be around kids at Christmas. Luis wrote his letter to Santa and made sure that food was left out for Santa and the reindeer. When we returned to Mark’s parents’ house, we were welcomed with presents overflowing into the centre of the living room, so we decided to ... read more

On our way from Edinburgh we pleasantly stopped at the City of Perth, on a Saturday morning, only to find out that there was a wonderful market on the main streets of downtown. It was so busy with people everywhere and we walked around to pick up some wonderful surprise items, like extremely fragrant home made lavender and heather soap, delicious walnut bread, garlic cheese, sausage, Scotish medican (which was delicious, I must say) etc. and then stopped for a nice cup of coffee and scones. We then continued on our way to Dornie Ross-shire Red House with a few more stops along the way. We were absolutely blown away with the green hills of low growing fern, mauve heather everywhere along the hill sides, mountain sides, and along the road way. Also passing so many ... read more

'You must be mad, but good for you!' and 'What did the schools say?' These are the two most common reactions we have had when telling folk about our trip. We've just started this travel blog from home as we prepare to head off first to New Zealand via Tokyo. We are busy just now with final packing details and preparing our house for our visitors. Sam and Emma will be adding to this blog as we go, so hopefully you can keep up with our adventures.... read more

Geo: 56.835, -3.47279A pleasant drive through the Scotish lowlands/ countryside, eventually saw us arrive in a small town called Pitlochry around about 6pm. We checked into a local bed and breakfast and then set off for a bit of exploring. Found a nice pub on the end of the town, and then stopped off for fish and chips.Finally, we found a better pub fairly close to our accomodation. Turned out to be a fairly humerous night out, due to the fact that there was Karioke playing! haha. Karioke is often funny at the best of times, but SCOTTISH karioke was really somethin.... read more

Hello from the land of sheep and whisky. When we left Slough (the land of pork roast, wine and Jaguars) our only aim was to strike north for York. For Canadians used to long distances, places here are so close that you find yourself saying “Well, we’re already in York, so we might as well see Edinburgh while we’re here…” …and soon enough you find you’re in the middle of Scotland, surrounded by sheep, pheasants, Englishmen and the occasional Scot. We have found long-distance transportation here to be expensive, but we found ourselves the handy BritExplorer 7-day bus pass for around £75 each, and actually ended up saving money while getting ourselves up to Edinburgh. York After a 5-hour bus ride we rolled into York, and we were in awe of one of the most atmospheric ... read more