Have had a fairly uninteresting day today. We stopped in a little mountain resort called Pitlochrie to see a fish ladder (where fish swim upstream) and have a little look around the town. There were no fish in the stream at the moment so fairly boring. The definite highlight of the day was our stop at St Andrews. We had a walk around town and saw the old castle and the cathedral but the main reason the people know St Andrews is because of the golf course. I walke...

"Ach me Jim lad". Not a phrase I've heard yet, although I've hardly heard to many Scottish accents yet either. The first thing we stopped at yesterday was Loch Lomond, the biggest Loch I'm Scotland. It is 24 miles long and has no monsters in it. We then passed through Glen Coe where the massacre of the MacDonald clan happened in 1692. We then had a stop in Fort William to see the commando memorial and also Ben Nevis, the UK's highest mountain. We had one more qui...

"Freedom!" I haven't heard one Scotsman yell it yet and I've been on Scotland about 5 hours. Feeling slightly ripped off. Also we had no trouble crossing the border, not even a little horde trying to keep us out. Feeling even more ripped off. And I haven't seen one man in a kilt yet. Feeling very ripped off. But in all seriousness we haven't seen very much of Scotland yet, so it is way way way to early to judge. We started off our day on the way to a Lake Distric...

Another day, another ferry trip. We embarked on our sixth ferry trip this holiday this morning as we went from Dublin to Holyhead in Wales. I have quite liked the shorter ferry trips as you are free to do your own for a bit and you aren't being sheparded around as much. Being that I am still sick (yeah I know, waa who cares) my choice of free time activity was sleep. We arrived in the north of Wales at around midday and set off on our journey to Chester to have a...

How would it be that the only time we have to wander around in Dublin I would be to sick to do it. I finally caught the flu that was doing the rounds in our previous tour bus. We got a sleep in for once and I made the most of it. Had a quick shower and made it just in time to catch the bus for our orientation tour of the city. We saw most of the major sites, but that main one was the Guinness factory which would have to wait. I was laid up in bed all afternoon so...