Thursday 14/8: picked up by our personal tour guides ( Claire, Helen & uncle Jim) and headed off to Pitlochry / kilicrankie / queensview. First stop kilicrankie and we walked down to soldiers leap .... historic spot ( Jacobite uprising) in a deep forest, some lovely views though as we make the trek down. Brian resisted the offer from uncle Jim to buy him a bungee ticket. We sat down to Helen's picnic which was the envy of other picnickers as we dined on a pa...

Today we had an early 4am pick up our driver was waiting for us to take us to the airport. We boarded our first flight to Heathrow a packed plane with mostly Romans going on holidays. Then boarded another flight to Edinburgh. Weather turned unfortunately and our first glimpse of Edinburgh was dark a sky. We were picked up by Brian's cousin Helen and her daughter Kate in a two door hatchback. It was rainy, windy and cold and we now had to task of trying to ge...