Highland Adventure!
Eilean Donnan Castle
Here are just a few pictures of our Highlands trip two weekends ago. 8 of us drove up friday night in two cars, barley surviving the death-trap two lane highway up to Skye where we camped the night in a small fishing town called Portree
(thanks to Sarah and my Aunt Brenda for travel advice. The town was beautiful!)
The girls slept in the cars and the boys slept in their £8 tesco tent. What an adventure! The Scottish Highlands are a deffinitely the Garden of Eden here on earth, one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. Above is my favorite castle, the Eilean Donnan Castle. It was built in the 1100's but was later destroyed by Vikings and wasn't rebuilt until the 19th century. We first saw it at night and I almost ran the car off the road. It was so spectacular!
Talk about being on top of the world...I could have spent hours up here, mabye even days. The rock to my right is called Old Man Storr, a 30 min. climb from the road. The view was absolutely amazing and how lucky we were to have sunshine! 
Mist and clouds set in just before we left and created the most eerie cool scene. It felt like we walked right into the film Lord of the Rings. I think I want to retire here in Portree someday...
This is the Sunset over Loch Ness. We didn't get there in time to explore the Urkhart castle or the museum, beware last entrance is 3:45 - lame... So Rich, Adam, Tiff and I hopped the fence to try and
sneak into the castle and got kicked out. So much for Loch Ness! up yer kilt on that one! So we just looked really hard for Nessie but didn't find her... only a wax figure in a pond two miles down the road at another exhibit. 
It was a beautiful loch, but I found the the hype a little over-rated. Out of spontanaity it was a great trip, but for driving all that way... I recommend atleast 3-4 days. We ended the trip in Inverness, the city just east of Loch Ness with fish and chips. I even tried HAGGIS for the first time!!! Lets just say that one bite was enough for me. (those of you who don't know what haggis is, it's pretty foul, infact it doesn't taste bad, it's just knowing what it is and how its cooked...go goolge it.)
Here are just a few pictures of our Highlands trip two weekends ago. 8 of us drove up friday night in two cars, barley surviving the death-trap two lane highway up to Skye where we camped the night in a small fishing town called Portree
(thanks to Sarah and my Aunt Brenda for travel advice. The town was beautiful!)
The girls slept in the cars and the boys slept in their £8 tesco tent. What an adventure! The Scottish Highlands are a deffinitely the Garden of Eden here on earth, one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. Above is my favorite castle, the Eilean Donnan Castle. It was built in the 1100's but was later destroyed by Vikings and wasn't rebuilt until the 19th century. We first saw it at night and I almost ran the car off the road. It was so spectacular!
Talk about being on top of the world...I could have spent hours up here, mabye even days. The rock to my right is called Old Man Storr, a 30 min. climb from the road. The view was absolutely amazing and how lucky we were to have sunshine! 
Mist and clouds set in just before we left and created the most eerie cool scene. It felt like we walked right into the film Lord of the Rings. I think I want to retire here in Portree someday...
This is the Sunset over Loch Ness. We didn't get there in time to explore the Urkhart castle or the museum, beware last entrance is 3:45 - lame... So Rich, Adam, Tiff and I hopped the fence to try and
sneak into the castle and got kicked out. So much for Loch Ness! up yer kilt on that one! So we just looked really hard for Nessie but didn't find her... only a wax figure in a pond two miles down the road at another exhibit. 
It was a beautiful loch, but I found the the hype a little over-rated. Out of spontanaity it was a great trip, but for driving all that way... I recommend atleast 3-4 days. We ended the trip in Inverness, the city just east of Loch Ness with fish and chips. I even tried HAGGIS for the first time!!! Lets just say that one bite was enough for me. (those of you who don't know what haggis is, it's pretty foul, infact it doesn't taste bad, it's just knowing what it is and how its cooked...go goolge it.)
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