What a View!

Two bacon, two sausage, two eggs, a potato scone, hash browns, beans, toast, tea, and a turnip – 4 pounds!

National Gallery – impressionist paintings

Scottish Parliament – photography

Arthur’s Seat

The real Arthur’s Seat…

If not exciting enough best try a heart attack!

Carlton Hill

Parthenon replica

Bad comedy shows

Tales of Edinburgh

One of many bagpipers at the Fringe Festival

Our Scotland guide from Australia

Heart of taxes

Lucky gold toe!

Grass Street

Deep fried Mars Bar from Grass Street

The birth place of Harry Potter

Harry Potter graveyard

Caged to prevent grave robbers

Greyfriar’s Bobby Grave – note the dog stuff

Greyfriar’s Bobby

The Royal Mile (more or less)

Floral clock

Edinburgh Castle

Guide convinced me to do the pub crawl

Full Moon Show… interesting

Not quite my scene, but interesting lighting

Pub crawl leader using one of us as transportation

Where’s Nessy?

Scotland Tour Day 5:

Loch Ness

Urquhart Castle

Commando Memorial

Glencoe Valley

Jacobites refused King Williams oath of allegiance and were massacred here.

Lyon Glen: glens were formed by glaciers scraping out valleys between the hard stone, this is the longest.

Calladonia: name from the Romans meaning beautiful forests.

Short week

These guys are good…

Real good…

Magicians even!.. actually the umbrella isn’t supposed to be floating.

Jumping Fish and a Haunted Castle

Scotland Tour Day 4:

St Magnus Cathedral

Scandelous

Back to the mainland

Falls of Shin

Jumping salmon

Carbisdale Castle

Our “haunted” hostel for the night

The gang

Bulls fighting

Invershin Hotel Pub

Peter – our resident bagpiper

Ancient Shenanigans

Scotland Tour Day 3:

Skara Brae

5000 year old dwellings

Skaill House

A cannon – in case of Viking raids 😉

Windy cliffs

The Ring of Brodgar

The Standing Stones of Stenness

The Tomb of Maeshowe – viking club house

The Auld Motorhoose

Tastes Like Puffin

Scotland Tour Day 2:

The journey continues

Puffin cliffs

What?

Boat to Orkney approaching!

Sticts of Ducensby – another photostitch gone wrong

And…

Still can’t fly

Random English telephone booth

Ancient dwelling complete with chopping block and giant hot rock water boiling tub

Hey big fella

More cliffs 😉

More cliffs 😉

Tomb of Eagles – spooky skulls

Italian Chapel

Kirkwall: deep fried haggis & chips YUM!

Georgeous!

Scotland Tour Day 1:

“Georgeous” – our bus and airforce training target!

Dunkeld Cathedral

River with a guy fishing in his row boat

The Hermitage

The biggest tree in the UK (not very big)

Observation deck with hidden entrance

Campsite in the middle of the Hermitage

Ruthven Barracks

Battle of Culloden: a story of propaganda and genocide

Cool 17th century house

Hootinanny – random live performance