holiday

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Back home again after a week in Scotland. We'd been invited to a friend's silver wedding "do" at Blair Atholl castle, and we decided to make a week of it. So we drove up the west side of England over 2 days, stayed up there for 2 nights,( we stayed in a lovely B and B with friends Joyce and Malcolm, who also know Judith and Peter, the anniversery couple ) down to friends in Dundee, then a night near Newcastle (meeting up with Sophie who was "on tour" there) before driving home again - 925 miles in a week.

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Photos

our hotel
in Moffat is the narrowest detached hotel in the world, in the guiness book of records.

ambition achieved
to see the falkirk wheel. its a boat lift between 2 canals, saving 11 locks.

lovely scenery
at Queen's view, on Loch Trummel.

ready
for the party, waiting for the taxi

Malcolm
with Joyce and Alex, ready to go

greeted
by a red carpet and a piper to pipe us in

champagne
on the castle terrace in the sunshine

and piped
into the great hall for a sumptuos feast

fancy a haircut from
the demon barber near blair Atholl

beer in the sun
in Dundee

and eating fudge doughnuts
outside the fudge doughnut shop!

"carving" the haggis
for tea. Well done Rod.

in the bath
at one of the Roman forts on Hadrian's wall

Sophie
snook up to pay me a surprise visit. I thought she was working, but she and Alex arranged a surprise visit at the travelodge.

Comments

[robyn]

what a lovely blog
Thank you for all the photos and blurb about your holiday!! That's an awful lot of driving - how did the car go?? as good as the Honda? Especially liked the photo of your three together!!

[sue]

lovely
to see a picture of the three of you. I havent seen many pictures of Sophie. The Falkirk wheel is amazing, I would like to know a bit more about it. It looks like an amazing structure.