LISA Our scenic and reviving (read - Lisa slept most of the way and missed the sights) bus trip culminated in our arrival in the city of Aberdeen where Mary thankfully spotted us. We were then treated to the scenic route to their delightful house via the River Dee, Costco, the park for Hector, the very miniature Yorkshire Terrier, and Marks and Spencers. A fantastic dinner of inch-thick rib-eye steak with accompaniments followed a lazy afternoon in which we rel...

LISA Edinburgh Day 3 The rainy morning convinced us it would be wise to catch the bus to the Museum on the Mound (a.k.a. the money museum). Having a different guide added to our ever-increasing knowledge of Scottish myth, legend and history, although we're not quite sure which is which. At the museum we feasted our eyes on £2million, all unfortunately stamped with a big CANCELLED. We also cleverly cracked a safe, but unfortunately some kids had done it just be...

LISA Edinburgh Day 2 The Castle was our first port of call today and I was keen to see where the Military Tattoo takes place. It took me a while but I eventually realised that it is staged out the front of the castle in what is essentially the car park. Ah well. We joined a free guided tour and found out some of the chequered history of the Castle, and realised just how much the Scots hated the English - they knocked the castle down to stop it being used by ...

LISA Edinburgh Day 1 Our first night in Scotland was ungraciously disturbed by some noisy Frenchmen, but as they weren't natives, we decided it would be ungracious to judge the country by them and, after a bit of a sleep-in, headed off to buy our 48hr Royal Edinburgh Tickets. These got us entry into Edinburgh Castle, the Palace of Holyroodhouse (royal residence in Edinburgh), and the Royal Yacht Britannia, as well as 48hrs of sightseeing bus passes on 4 diff...

LISA Having realised our grievous error in missing Harrods when we were last in London, we headed to the luxury department store as soon as we were settled that night (they're open late) hoping for some great pictures and maybe a souvenir bag. The ironic comedy of the day continued when we popped up out of the underground and realised that the whole famous façade was obscured by scaffolding, and the big gold letters were barely visible. Having learnt resi...