With the rain continuing to come down we made a brief journey onto the Culloden Battlefield, nowadays just a paddock of long grass but actually the location of the Battle of Culloden in 1746. This battle is very significant to the Scottish as it was the battle that resulted in a crushing defeat for the Jacobite forces (primarily Scottish highlanders) allowing the Hanoverian British government to maintain power. As we made our way back to Edinburgh we also made a...

To start day 30 of our time away we discovered our airport Travelodge in Dublin wasn't actually that close to the airport, but paid the overpriced cab fare and moved on to our first flight with budget Euro airline Ryanair.By handballing (and throwing out) some stuff from her pack Elle managed to bring down the weight from near 17kg, under the strict 15kg Ryanair limit, to just 13.7!Coincidentally Barry's swells from about 13kg to 14.7, which in hindsight was ...