Haggis, Highlanders and Hairy Coos Day 5 of Highlands tour - Oban to Edinburgh - 7th August 2009 The last day. The first stop was at Carnassarie Castle not far out of Oban. It was just a shell, but pretty cool, to climb up and around it. We didn't stay here long as there wasn't much to do.We had a toilet stop in a little place called Killmartin, which across the road had a little church with graveyard. They had some tombstones displayed which date right back to...

Haggis, Highlanders and Hairy Coos Day 4 of Highlands tour - Isle of Skye to Oban - 6th August 2009 Day 4 saw some beautiful weather again as we headed off Skye. We stopped for a few photos as we got off the island, and we stopped again for more photos back at Eileen Donan Castle as the weather was much better for photo taking than the first time we were there. We also did a couple of group photos which will get emailed back to us. We also did a Taiwan group ph...

Haggis, Highlanders and Hairy Coos Day 3 of Highlands tour - Isle of Skye - 5th August 2009 Day 3 was going to be spent entirely exploring Skye. It is rather a large island, and we were just going to be on the northern peninsula. We had been told that we were going to be spending more time off the bus, instead of on it today, so that was good. I had been getting a little bus sick for the last two days, nothing major, just some yukky queasy feelings. Our first...

Haggis, Highlanders and Hairy Coos Day 2 of Highlands tour - Inverness to Isle of Skye - 4th August 2009 Day 2 begun much the same way as the first day did. Showers, breakfast and on the bus by 9. Today's journey was seeing us make our way from Inverness to the Isle of Skye with plenty of stops along the way.The first stop was one of my favourites for the trip. It was a place called the "Clootie Well". It was just in some bushland, not that far from...

Haggis, Highlanders and Hairy Coos Day 1 of Highlands tour - Edinburgh to Inverness - 3rd August 2009 Next morning we were up bright and early, packed and ready to take on our 5-day adventure with MacBackpackers. After a breakfast of very expensive baguettes, we had to wait in the hostel reception until they'd figured out who was on what bus and what not. Once on we headed over to the other hostel and picked up the rest of our group. There were 28 of us, and ou...