Making the most of a bank holiday Monday, we took the entire week off for a trip to Scotland and Ireland. So we flew up to Edinburgh on Friday after work and got stuck into the touristing first thing Saturday morning. First up Edinburgh Castle, the very reason for Edinburgh's existence, perched on a rocky outcrop overlooking town.
Having ticked off the main sight, we wandered the streets, past Holyrood Palace, up and over Carlton Hill, through the main shopping streets, making sure we left plenty of time for a few beers at the end of a great day.
Awoke to a beautiful Sunday morning in Edinburgh, time for a quick snap of Edinburgh Castle in the Sunlight before picking up our rental car and leaving Edinburgh behind us.
So north we went in our little Ford Focus, to the surprisingly impressive St Andrews, home to a ruined abbey and castle, and a million golf shops, being home of one the most famous courses in the world.
Still we continued north around the coast to Aberdeen, a nice enough city, but nothing really to trouble the old memory card.
By now we were hitting some serious highlands, still with the odd sprinkling of snow
We hit the coast again at the lovely little fishing village of Portsoy, before heading round to Inverness. Inverness is a stark contrast to Aberdeen, i.e. small, nestled along a little river and overlooked by a pretty castle. We had a great few hours walking alongside the river and having a great curry overlooking town.
Tuesday was a big driving day so we took off early and headed east, out to picturesque Plockton and then Portree on the Isle of Skye, all the while driving along some of the most spectacular roads invented.
We ended up in Fort Augustus, on the southern tip of Loch Ness, for a wander around the very little town and a quick Nessie hunt.
More Nessie hunting the following morning as we took the road north along the edge of the Loch to Drimnadrochit, home of the The Loch Ness Centre, passing the beautiful Urquhart Castle on the way.
But the main event on Wednesday was a bit of time out of the car, up to a spectacular meadow and 90m waterfall just out of Fort William, well worth the hour and half trek.
After a quick walk through Fort William we hit the hay for an early night as we had an very early start to see a couple of things before our flight to Ireland. We had a quick a wander through Stirling, home of a Edinburgh-like castle, and out to the harbour north of Edinburgh for a walk through the Royal Yacht Brittania.
Dropping our car off back in Edinburgh we made it back out to Edinburgh airport for our flight to Galway...
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