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It was a wet start to the day and, being a Sunday, many tourist places opened a little bit later. The Botanical Gardens had an earlier opening so we started our day in Glasgow there. It really started pouring down as we made our way to the Kelvingrove Muesum but on the way we spotted […]

We woke to rain and our last view of Loch Ness was with atmospheric cloud low over the water, the tips of the mountains hidden. We began our trip southwards to our holiday cottage which we would be in for the remaining week in Scotland. Once again I had planned a number of stops to […]

On this day we did an entire loop of Loch Ness, starting and finishing at our glamping pod. Halfway down the opposite side of the loch is the ruins of Urquhart Castle. As you arrive, you discover that the castle was destoyed by its inhabitants to prevent it being used by the Jacobite enemy. Next […]

Our first full day in Scotland! We headed off from the Premier Inn at Mussleburgh, to the east of Edinburgh, and were very excited to go over the Forth Bridge! The first stop on our itinery was Dunfermline Abbey and Palace. Dunfermline is the place where Charles I was born, the last monarch to be […]

A hearty breakfast then a brisk walk to the National Railway Muesum, reliving the scenes frmom York that we remembered from our holiday 3 years ago. Matthew’s train obsession still simmers alondside his dinosaur one and he greeted the engines like old friends (well, they pretended to be chased by Eurostar but that’s the same […]