As an overview, we left London on Sunday night, June 30 on the sleeper train to Glasgow. We picked up a car in Glasgow and drove to the west coast, near Oban. We spent a few days there. From the west coast, we drove into the central highlands for several days. from here we did several days trips, including a Highlands Games.
As we left, we stopped by the Glenfiddich Distillery and a working Cooperage nearby where they make and refurbish barrels for the whiskey. We dropped the car in Aberdeen and immediately caught a train to Edinburgh for the last few days. On Wednesday night, we rode the sleeper car back to London. I return to work on Monday.
The weather overall was awesome for Scotland. Only 1 day was truly bad weather, rainy and cold with a lot of wind. Most of the rest of the time was warm and sunny. We had a couple of days with some showers, but we were prepared for everything except the hottest and coldest temps.
There's so much to share in this trip, we're going to do it over multiple entries. I'll use this one as the master and link to the others.
We spent the weekend prepping to leave, that entry is here with a slideshow
First stop was Glasgow, the report is here with slideshow
Diana has an entry about the Wildflowers we saw here
Oban and the West Coast is here
Our walk along the River Spey is here
And our climb up Cairngorm Mountain is here
Carrbridge is here
An entry on Edinburgh and our last day is here
In the other entries, I'll share some photos, but not all. The master photo album is linked here. Also, we mapped where the pics were taken on Google Maps here, and you can look at it in Google Earth (Warning: Google Earth must be installed on your computer and you'll need a high speed internet link, this won't work on dial up. It downloads a small configuration file to your PC that's safe)
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It's beautiful out there. Looks like you had a fun trip!
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