On Tuesday 30 June we set off for Oban which was not very far away. It was hot again....mid twenties. We stopped off on the way to take a look at Stalker Castle, it was on an island so is only acessable by boat ....we arrived in Oban mid morning and found our accomodation, Corriemar Hotel, which was on the Esplanade overlooking the harbour, looked very nice. We left the car to explore the town. Oban is the "Seafood Capital of Scotland", we had a bit o...

On Sunday 28th June we headed off to Fort William and on the way stopped at Loch Ness. Vivienne and I went down to the waters edge and I placed my hand in the water and I am sure that somethiog brushed up against me! could it have been Nessy I hear you say, who knows?. The scenery was wonderful and the Loch was sooo big and long, the ideal place for a monster to hide away, at the end of the Loch was Urquart Castle, or what is left of it, so we stopped and had a ...

On Thursday 25th June we headed off to the highlands of Scotland and stopped at St Andrews, home of the famous Golf Course and also the Castle and Cathedral. The weather has been beautiful since we left Letchworth, they are having a heatwave here in the UK, 5 days of mid 20's temperatures....if they only new what hot was. St Andrews was very busy as it was Graduation day at the University, we sure have the timing down pat, we managed to see what we wanted to se...

On Tuesday 23rd June we drove from Wooler to Edinburgh past the Angel of the North which welcomes you to Scotland. Checked into a lovely hotel with not too many stairs this time, walked into Edinburgh CBD which took about 30 minutes. Most of the city centre was under road reconstruction as they are putting in a tram system, which was very disappointing as it was not very photogenic. Next day we got a bus pass which we could use all day for £3.00 (bargain) and ...

Hi all, well we are back from our trip to Scotland, the internet access was not good up that way so we unfortunately couldn't update as we went along so we will do a few snapshots of our trip. We started our journey on Sunday 21st June, our first stop was Holy Island, Lindesfarne we stayed at Wooler which is close by in a 17th Century coach inn, The Black Bull, lovely old place with lots of stairs......and I mean lots of stairs we were exhausted by the time we h...