One of the best things we did was treat ourselves to a tour to the Isle of Skye, so we could have someone else do the driving. The road through Glen Shiel was amazing. (And pouring rain, so no pictures.) Our first stop, before Skye, was Eilean Donan Castle. Which I will own my nerd-dom, […]
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Dunrobin Castle Carn Liath
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Our next drive was north of Inverness, up to Dunrobin Castle in Golspie. This is another castle still owned by the original family, and it’s on an amazing patch of land right on the ocean. (The day we were there, there were fighter jet drills happening at the nearby base, so we had that sound
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I finally finished the body of the Trisha sweater. Thank all the gods the author uses a short row method so you can knit this on the inside, instead of having to purl the whole thing. I would not have survived that much purling. As it was, I did an entire Boreas chart in the
I have to give credit here to the Wild Mountain Garden at the base lodge at Cairngorm. Most of these flowers came from here. I took most of these pictures in the rain, because it was too good an opporunity to miss.
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For our next day, we headed over to the Cairngorm mountains. In Gaelic, this range is called Am Monadh Ruadh (the red mountains), and Cairn Gorm (blue hill) is the fifth highest peak. It’s a sky resort, and you can take the funicular up year round. You’re actually not allowed out on the mountain if
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For our first full day out of Inverness, we stopped by several fairly close sites. I really loved being in our own car – we got to explore a little more than the people in the tour buses. Culloden is the site of the last battlefield on British soil – the last battle for Bonnie
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The garden didn’t do too badly while I was gone. I enlisted my mother to come over and water. There were some nice sunny days, so some things grew in quite nicely. It hasn’t been warm enough for the peppers and basil to be thrilled, but they’re doing ok. I was pleasantly surprised by how
