On our last day on the Isle of Skye, we headed over to a place called the Fairy Pools. Many of the roads on Skye (and all around Scotland for that matter) are single lane roads. They contain small areas called Passing Points every few hundred metres where cars need to pull over to let traffic through coming the other way. A lot of the roads leading to the Fairy Pools were like this. We arrived at the car park and put on our scarves and jackets. It was freezing...

Today we drove from Aberdeen to a place called Scrabster, which I think sounds like a skin condition. One the way we stopped at another castle. This one, called Dunrobin Castle, was easily the most beautiful we had seen yet. We pulled into the carpark and I took a couple of photos when a lady happened by and mentioned that the view was even better if we walked around the castle and down the road to the beach. We took her advice and were very thankful for it. Th...

We left our beautiful hotel in London and took a London cab to Kings Cross station for our journey to Scotland. They have taken a piece of wall in Kings Cross station between platforms 9 and 10 and turned it into a tourist trap. Someone has placed half a trolley in the wall and charges people to have their photo taken holding the handles as if they are running through the wall to go to Hogwarts. Cashing in on the success of Harry Potter. We boarded our train, ...

We arrived in London and checked into our hotel, which was only 100 metres from Piccadilly Circus in one direction and Trafalgar Square in the other. A perfect location right in the middle of West End theatre district and a short walk to Buckingham Palace. We wasted no time getting out amongst it. After two months of Italian food and wine it was a welcome relief to go to a place where the pub scene is so prevalent. We found a pub called the Admiralty right acr...