The day started early… for me I woke up at midnight and then finally got back to sleep at 3am… problems of JET LAG.. Plus our room air was not exactly cool… kinda Luke Cool? oh well…
We got up at 6am, got our bags out to be packed away and went for breakfast… typical english breakfast… baked tomatoes, beans, mushrooms, side bacon or sausage and a variety of cold cuts and breads and cereals… not bad…
At 8:15 we were off to Loch Lamond for a boat ride…
Our trip on the lake was to this waterfall at a resort that had been used in the old movie 39 steps…
And this was the resort..
Then it was more bus ride through the "highlands" headed to Inverarary… and the roads here are like home, in constant state of construction..
Note the line of cars on the side… we came through that and in a huge bus on a road that is maybe 1.75 lanes wide… some of the meetings were exciting…
Of course they want us to spend money so we stop a lot at shops to check out the local stuff and here we got lunch …nothing really to write home about or even send pictures… puree vegetable soup and ham sandwich…
These two were trying to help in the selling…
The next stop was the Castle at Inveraray which is lived in but is open to public in certain sections… this was the old front of the castle used in the show Downtown Abby… but the real entrance was moved to the opposite side back when it was built… although the TV people figured this was a better dramatic entrance… ok… fine with us we got to see both..
The real entrance… covered and a lot of flowers ..
The castle was filled with….. OLD CRAP..
Note in the breast plate a bullet dent… this one worked? wouldn’t want to be the guy who was required to test it…?
We got to see the old Kitchen… just a show piece now but it was filled with copper stuff…
We got our pictures taken with the Real Duke of Argyle… he was signing the history of the castle so we bought one, signed of course, and got a picture… not too bad to get that close to some real nobility…
After leaving there we traveled on toward Glencoe (sp) and saw an old castle that came on hard times…
We saw a lot of waterfalls, a ski area, some pretty rought mountains and stopped so this guy could serenade us…
This one was playing for us when we got to Inveraray… back down the road…
We got to the hotel and found this as some of our sleeping arrangements….
Not really but our room had these bunks in a very small area off the bedroom… although our first attempt at a room had two twin beds? ..
oh well it is a vacation right?
Tomorrow… more bus ride and another ferry out to SKYE island…
WD0AJG
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