Boo! So we picked up our car today very new it's only done 1100 km silver ford focus Manuel. With plenty of bells and whistles to make our ride enjoyable. We headed to the botanic gardens of Glasgow to Kibble Palace which is a big hot humid green house. Alistair is a bit of a green finger. We had pizza for lunch and the others had Persian. After heading in a northbound along route 82 and stopped at Glen Coe ski resort. There were a few pockets of snow up the t...

Hi ( again!) So we are back in Glasgow for the night before Jacinta and I get our car tomoz and head north. We started off with a great brekkie at the hotel then headed off SE to the ruins of Caerlaverock Castle which was attacked by the English in 1300 ad after a 76 hr siege they gave the castle up. I loved this castle plenty to do and see even the fireplaces were there. It was a such a photogenic spot I loved it so I created a separate photo album. As you kno...

Today we made our way south with our destination of Dumfries for an overnight stay. I drove for most of the day as Bill (uncle ) was tired. What I have learnt: - the roads are very narrow - auto wipers are awesome ESP in Scotland We went down south to New Galloway then south to Newton Stewart. We stopped on the way at Clatteringshaws forest wildlife centre. We has lunch here as there was a cute cafe we all pretty much had tomato and basil soup with a roll ...

Heya! We awoke with Mary coming in this morning saying "it's lashing with rain" we replied with " it's doin what?". Aka its raining! Then she told us the Queen was going to Edinburgh as part of the jubilee celebrations. So we went off to Roselyn Chapel just south of Edinburgh which is featured in the DaVinci code. It has very fine carvings in the sandstone which it's made from. It's very old 1446 and it survived many attacks and the queen has even been there. ...

Hello! We had a lovely breakfast at Mary's this morning which consisted of cereal and Grandpas fav bacon rolls! Alistair arrived and got picked up from the station so it was great to catch up after he has been studying and traveling around Europe for the last 7 months. So after leaving Newton Mearns we headed off to Bearsden to where Dad and Linda grew up as kids. We went for a walk around the top of the hill to where they used to explore as well as uncovering...