Before leaving Inverness to go to Fort William, I wanted to get gas for the car. It takes diesel and it is a hybrid so it hasn't used much, but it seemed like a good idea to fill up before leaving the biggest city we would see before returning the car to the airport in Glasgow. It was down only about a quarter of a tank. We asked a clerk at the tourist information centre if there would be a petrol station on the way out of town. She said there were none in that d...

Started with a late breakfast at a coffee shop a bit farther away than the one yesterday, but I had seen the sign for it while at breakfast yesterday. We liked this one better, and while we were there we also bought juice and pastries for tomorrow's breakfast so we wouldn't have to find food then. We did a little bit of looking at the shops in town, but did not find anything to buy. The highlight of the day was going to the Inverness Highland Games in the after...

We started the day slowly with breakfast at So CoCo café just down the street from the apartment. It was okay, but priced a bit high and really nothing special so we'll look for another place tomorrow. After breakfast, we stopped in at the tourist information centre to get advice on the best way to get to the starting point for our tour of Loch Ness and Urquhart Castle which was to begin at 2:00. The clerk there said it would be a nice walk along the banks...

After breakfast in the hotel, we checked out and loaded the car for the 140-mile drive to Inverness. Before we started though, we took a thorough look at the car manual so we could learn how to work the gps system and a few other details--using the windshield wipers, turning on the lights, opening the gas tank. The car has a gps system installed which turned out to be pretty easy to use once we got used to it, but it isn't like any we have seen before. I entered ...

After a long day and night of travel, we arrived in Glasgow after making stops and changing planes in Houston and changing airlines in London. Heathrow is huge, and we walked about two miles to get from the arrival gate, through customs and immigration, and on to the departure gate. I had arranged for a three-hour layover, so we had plenty of time to get through all the procedures required. We carried on all our luggage which let us skip the step of retrieving ba...