Since I climbed up the big hill of a mountain called Ben Ledi, we adventured westward to Glasgow, where we experienced as much of this big city as we could. We saw the Famous Art & History Museum. We walked along to see the oldest house in Glasgow, and ended off with a stroll in the spooky Necropolis topped off with a few snaps of the Glasgow Cathedral. Some of these pics you might have already seen on my site, otherwise, go take a look, since a picture says a thousand words… and in many languages.
After Glasgow, a few weeks later, we headed North Westerly, to the misty Isle of Skye. We went with a tour group, so the trip was filled with interesting tales, some true, some fictional, and some… well… imagination is in the mind of the beholder. Have any of you seen Highlander? Well we got the opportunity to explore this small little castle that was in the film, I forget what it’s called now. The best room had to be the kitchen frozen in time, not literally of course, since you wouldn’t want me to launch into some side tract thought on time travel, oh no, this kitchen had life size people going about their cooking… even a kitty under the table. Sue made sure that the cat was loved of course! The cat, food, and just about everything else in that kitchen was made of some sort of wax, or polymer that I didn’t have time to analyse, but regardless, very well done! Woops… getting carried away… after the castle we arrived in Skye, slept in a hostel/bar/pub… not as bad as it sounds, even though it was named after a Lady that Revealed herself to passing sailors called Saucy Mary.
Skye was beautiful… on the morning we set off around Skye it was a little overcast, a little liquid sunshine here and there: This is Scottish (or possibly Duncan our tour leader’s) lingo for a monkey’s wedding... not going to explain what that is to the Scottish readers :) – So, around Skye we went, I was keeping track of it all on my GPS of course. And as the day was coming to an end we left Skye and arrived in Drumnadrochit. I would love to know who came up with that name, or what it means!!
That evening we went in search of a cache, only 1 km away, but of course it was all the way up this steep little hill. But like most remote caches, they take you to magnificent places. On the way up I stood looking out over the green fields, quite roads, trees, horses… even the way the sunlight shone over the mountains casting shadows, everything was so perfect. All I could do was thank God… it’s in these moments that I want to just give Him a big hug and say thank you. I remember telling Neil that it’s one of the most beautiful scenes I’ve seen, and he had to remind me that I said something similar earlier on that day, in Skye when we were exploring another totally wonderful wordless world. Beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder… But I will stop going on about that now.
We found such a cool cache. An ammo box! Check it out here.
The next morning we went down to the banks of loch ness and had a good look for that elusive monster. But we didn’t see anything, I did however find another cache, and then two more on the way back home to Edinburgh. I will be putting a few pictures of my site tomorrow, so take a look then. I’m not going to say too much more about the rest of the trip, since I myself get bored writing about what we did instead of writing about thoughts and ideas. Which, truth be told, makes up the majority of this blog. If you interested to know more about my trip, just ask, but otherwise, I will just end by saying that it was a truly amazing experience, and although expensive, I do recommend it!