July 19 – It was so hard to leave our beautiful hotel this morning. But leave we did, entering our final day with mixed feelings about the end of this tour. We saw some beautiful scenery today, including majestic mountains, Loch Lomond, and wide open farm land.   Our first destination was Crarae Garden, created […]

July 18 – We went monster-hunting today! Well, not exactly: but had we spotted a certain creature on our journey, it would have been the icing on the cake. We travelled many miles and many hours on the bus today and saw so much: the length of Loch Ness, Britain’s highest mountain Ben Nevis, a […]

July 17 – We spent much of today on the bus, since we had a long way to go from Aviemore and back again. Our destination was Inverewe, near Gruinard Bay on the northwest coast of Scotland. The drive itself was delightful, winding through hills and past clear streams and lochs. Frequent rain hardly dampened […]

July 16 – We drove north today. Our first stop was the prehistoric Clava Cairns, an important Neolithic archeological site, estimated to be 5,ooo years old. This site consists of three large cairns surrounded by standing stones. Set in a peaceful grove of trees, we pondered the mystery of this place and the people who […]

We will sleep in Aviemore again tonight, using this as our central location for day trips. Today we spent hours on the road, traveling among the hills of the Cairngorms National Park and along the Whiskey Trail. Our travels took us almost to the east coast to Aberdeen.   Our driver negotiated some tricky spots […]