Whistle Stop Scotland - Tighnabruaich (Part 2)

Well this is the second part of the Kyles of Brute tour ...
























This was a treat and a real surprise ... the Steamer Waverley ... the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world.







The photo on the left and the pano was taken on the way home at a lookout point looking out over the Kyles
Well this concludes my Scotland series ... Hope you enjoyed the trip. On a sadder note ... moving tomorrow so it means that I am going to be without internet for a while so no posts for a while :o( But I will take lots of pics while I'm gone.

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Whistle Stop Scotland - Tighnabruaich (Part 1)

Pamela chartered a sail boat for her Dads birthday the Saturday of our Scotland visit. We got up relatively early and headed out. We took a great day trip up through the Kyles of Brute. It was amazing and we took stax of photo's so I have decided to devide them into two parts. The first one is mostly just the people on the boat.




Pamela and her dad David.



The girls ... Joanne, Pamela and me



Pamela's Auntie Mary, Joanne, and Pamela's mom Katherine.





Lady P at the helm



The two of us




















More sailing pics tomorrow

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Whistle Stop Scotland - Edinburgh

We spent Sunday the 13th of August in Edinburgh since we had tickets to go see Danny Bhoy at the Edinburgh festival. So spent most of the day wandering around the city. It really is a beautiful place, but I think the photo's speak for themselves ;o)































This was another statue as a memorial to the Scots that died in the South African wars ...















The festival is still going so drop by if you can ... I can recommend it. More Scotland photo's later ... as a sidenote we found a flat ... yippeee!!!

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Whistle Stop Scotland - Glasgow

After Stirling we drove back to Glasgow where we were staying with Pamela and her parents. Pamela took us to a place near their cattery that looks out over Glasgow for a great sunset.



































More Scotland pics later.
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Whistle Stop Scotland - Stirling Castle

Wel as promised more photo's from our whistle stop tour of Scotland. After we went to Loch Lomond we drove to Stirling to go have a look at Stirling Castle. The scenery on the way there was beautiful. We arrived a bit late to go into the castle but the view from there onto Stirling was breathtaking.










Hendrik and I in front of the Castle on the drawbridge. The next photo is Pamela, Joanne and me on the drawbridge.



This picture is a photo from rtl in picture a memorial to all the Scots that died in the South African war, the 2nd statue is of Robert the Bruce and the 3rd in the distance is the Willian Wallace monument.













More pictures of Scotland L8r
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Whistle Stop Scotland - Loch Lomond

So even with the terrorist threat in the UK and being delayed 1h30 we landed in Edinburgh on Thursday evening, met Pamela and her mom and drove through to Glasgow. We had a great supper at a Scottish restaurant and had our first taste of haggis ;o) Had some great cocktails and went dancing for a bit ... before heading off to bed.

Friday started our first day of a whistle stop tour of Scotland, so will be breaking the tour into bite size chunks. Our first stop was Loch Lomond ... All I can say is wow ... it was amazing everthing is green and it looks so peaceful ... here are some of the photos I took while we where there.

The first pic is of Hendrik and me and the second one is of Pamela (our flatmate) and her friend Joanne.




I also managed to put together some great pano's















This little island is called Tarbert Isle














More photo's on Scotland tomorrow ...
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