What a great weekend. We started here in Glasgow on Saturday morning and headed to Dumbarton Castle.
The weather was NASTY. It felt like a hurricane was moving in! The winds nearly knocked some of us over. I'll admit, I fell down twice. But this shows how most of Scotland looks. It's gray. It's covered in shrubbery. It's very green.
This is on top of the castle apparently. I don't really understand it all... I was too busy getting blown around to figure out where the stupid thing was. But it was really lovely. After the castle, we went to Loch Lomond, which I couldn't be bothered to photograph. I mean... it was a lake. Everyone knows what a lake looks like. Then we headed up into the Highlands, where we stopped to take pictures of The Three Sisters.
Beautiful mountains! Kind of weird, though. American mountains are very... gradual. It's hard to explain. These were very abrupt. Out of nowhere... a mountain! But very pretty. And there is snow! It made me feel at home. Finally we arrived in Oban, which is where we spent the night. It was a very pretty little town right on the coast.
Of course, the weather was awful. But welcome to Scotland... These were taken from a tower up at the top of the hill in the town called McCaig's Tower. Also very pretty and fashioned to look like a Roman building.
Hey look! I'm alive. So we spent the night in Oban at the hostel. It was very nice. Our leader told us to not expect that nice of a place for all hostels. But that one sure was lovely. The next day we headed out early and went to a very cool bridge. Unfortunately, I didn't take a picture of the actual bridge, but I did take one of the Atlantic ocean from the top of it!
After our stop there, we continued on to a better beach.
Rainbow! There are a ton of rainbows here. Product of all the rainfall. They are pretty, but I'm worried I'm going to get desensitized to them because they are
everywhere. I see one almost every day. Our last stop was a village called Inveraray. It might have been the cutest little village I've ever seen. Right on a huge loch.
The blue one is actually a museum.
This is the view across the bay. You can juuuust see the spire of the castle on the left side, tucked into the trees. Up close, it looks like a castle out of a fairy tale.
Gorgeous. Inverary was our last stop on the trip. After that we hightailed it home. We were all wiped, and most of us slept on the last two hour leg of the journey. Once we got home, I couldn't be bothered to do anything but shower, eat and pass out. I slept for 12 hours last night. Much needed. Today I ran some errands and took a long walk through the Botanical Gardens and Kelvingrove Park, where I took some pictures for my photography class and a few with my own camera. But I can't be bothered to put them up now, so you'll see them tomorrow. :)
The weather was NASTY. It felt like a hurricane was moving in! The winds nearly knocked some of us over. I'll admit, I fell down twice. But this shows how most of Scotland looks. It's gray. It's covered in shrubbery. It's very green.
This is on top of the castle apparently. I don't really understand it all... I was too busy getting blown around to figure out where the stupid thing was. But it was really lovely. After the castle, we went to Loch Lomond, which I couldn't be bothered to photograph. I mean... it was a lake. Everyone knows what a lake looks like. Then we headed up into the Highlands, where we stopped to take pictures of The Three Sisters.
Beautiful mountains! Kind of weird, though. American mountains are very... gradual. It's hard to explain. These were very abrupt. Out of nowhere... a mountain! But very pretty. And there is snow! It made me feel at home. Finally we arrived in Oban, which is where we spent the night. It was a very pretty little town right on the coast.
Of course, the weather was awful. But welcome to Scotland... These were taken from a tower up at the top of the hill in the town called McCaig's Tower. Also very pretty and fashioned to look like a Roman building.
Hey look! I'm alive. So we spent the night in Oban at the hostel. It was very nice. Our leader told us to not expect that nice of a place for all hostels. But that one sure was lovely. The next day we headed out early and went to a very cool bridge. Unfortunately, I didn't take a picture of the actual bridge, but I did take one of the Atlantic ocean from the top of it!
After our stop there, we continued on to a better beach.
Rainbow! There are a ton of rainbows here. Product of all the rainfall. They are pretty, but I'm worried I'm going to get desensitized to them because they are everywhere. I see one almost every day. Our last stop was a village called Inveraray. It might have been the cutest little village I've ever seen. Right on a huge loch.
The blue one is actually a museum.
This is the view across the bay. You can juuuust see the spire of the castle on the left side, tucked into the trees. Up close, it looks like a castle out of a fairy tale.
Gorgeous. Inverary was our last stop on the trip. After that we hightailed it home. We were all wiped, and most of us slept on the last two hour leg of the journey. Once we got home, I couldn't be bothered to do anything but shower, eat and pass out. I slept for 12 hours last night. Much needed. Today I ran some errands and took a long walk through the Botanical Gardens and Kelvingrove Park, where I took some pictures for my photography class and a few with my own camera. But I can't be bothered to put them up now, so you'll see them tomorrow. :)
Thank you for the pictures and the commentary. I especially like the one of my Scottie Princess. It is a much expensive way for me to travel following your blog. Thank you for the time you dedicate to it.
ReplyDeleteI'm really glad you are enjoying it. It's kind of satisfying to write up a post at the end of the day. It's therapeutic.
DeleteOOps it should have said much less expensive way ...
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