Scotland

Our last trek along the Royal Mile making our way to the palace. Hearing about the complicated relationship between Scotland and England and a bit of the political story and history. The Kings official residence while in Scotland, the elegance…

Ann our local guide was absolutely brilliant. The stories, the history, the funny quotes gave us a glimpse of the city she loves and calls home. We walked up the mile street hill with street sights used in the Harry…

Leaving the Loch and the Highlands of Scotland today. Tales of the Fairy’s good & bad. The bad ones are beautiful horses that encourage you to hop on for a ride. If you do, your fate is sealed. You get…

Our day started learning about the Iron Age (1400BC) people who farmed these lands and built Scotlands unique crannogs, which are prehistoric thatched roofed defensive huts build on piers over the lochs. Lots of interesting demonstrations of what life was…

Not often (never) do we start the day with a pour of whiskey 🥃; after the distillery tour of course. Glen Moray welcomed us and walked us through the process of making their world famous Scottish whiskey. We learned the…

Today was a sort of quiet, go for a bus ride kind of day. We were scheduled to stop at the famous Loch Ness, a couple of castles and the historic Culloden Battlefield. We started with a drive to Loch…

Welcome to our Rick Steves Tour! Day one of our Scotland tour didn’t start until 4:00pm, so we had a leisurely morning packing up and transferring to our hotel which is part of the tour. It was only about a…

Yesterday we asked our cab driver “how has summer been so far?” He said “so far, two nice summer days.” This morning we woke up to the start of blue skies & no rain. Looks like day 3 of summer.…

Long journey to Scotland. We had a lovely flight to London last night. We upgraded to 1st and the pods were perfect for an 11 hour flight. We had little dividers so our space was our own. We did not…