As you read this, we’re probably on a plane to Scotland!

SCOTLAND!

I’m excited! My 3rd trip and Andrew’s 2nd trip to Europe …. (wish we could go every year) … .

I was trying to express to a co-worker how excited I am!

Loch Ness Monster! Ghost-walks in Edinburgh! Historic battlefields!

Ok, actually … that makes Scotland sound frightening

So you can follow along ….

Here is our *tentative* itinerary:

8/12 – Friday:

• arrive about noon, Edinburgh airport
• Kevin picks us up
• check-in to timeshare late afternoon
• check out Aberfeldy, maybe grocery shopping, maybe bed EARLY

8/13 – Saturday: Pitlochry + Cairngorms National Park

• forest walks/hikes
• self-guided Whisky Walk and Distillery tours

8/14 – Sunday: West Coast of Scotland:

• Oban+Mull+Iona OR scenic drive through Glencoe Valley+Oban

8/15 – Monday: Edinburgh

• Edinburgh castle
• Royal Mile
• literary or ghost walk
• festival

8/16 – Tuesday: Edinburgh

• more along Royal Mile
• St Giles Cathedral
• Parliament Building
• festival
• another guided night walk?

8/17 – Wednesday: Loch Ness

• Loch Ness
• Urquhart Castle
• Culloden Battlefield

8/18 – Thursday: St. Andrews

• St. Andrews town guided walk
• East Neuk (little fishing villages short drive away like Anstruther)

8/19 – Friday: A&A fly out at noon

• back in L.A. by Friday night

Note: this is all tentative and since Andrew and I aren’t renting a car, we don’t have a WHOLE lot of control over how it will go …. But sounds like fun, no?

Posts will continue while we’re gone

want to read more?

• Scotland: driving home from Inverness
• Scotland: Urquhart Castle (part 2)
• Scotland: Loch Ness and lunch at Urquhart Castle
• Scotland: Church of the Holy Rude
• Scotland: Stirling Castle