Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Return From Drumnadrochit (Loch Ness) and Inverness

So we are back from an awesome weekend up in the Northern part of Scotland. We took the train to Inverness at 6.30am and walked around Inverness for a while before catching the bus to Drumnadrochit where our hotel was. Drumnadrochit is where Loch Ness is, well, it is just one of many towns that are along Loch Ness. We unpacked and headed out to hike through the woodlands that were about 1 mile or so away. We were looking all over for Loch Ness (which you think would be extremely easy given the size of the loch), but we walked in circles on this woodland walk for a good two hours. We finally bumped into this lady and she pointed us in the right direction. We had to cross a stream on tip toe and try not to fall stepping on lose stones. We finally reached Loch Ness and it was absolutely beautiful. The view was amazing! I posted the photos on the photo page, so go check them out! We headed back towards town and called it a night. The next day, we headed to Uruqhart Castle, which was about 2 miles away. The view of Loch Ness was amazing the entire walk to the castle. We reached the castle and ate a quick lunch and went down to the castle. The castle was beautiful and so old. It is in ruins, but there were still some levels of the castle that we were able to take the spiral staircase up to. We took hundreds of photos and had to head back towards town to catch the 1.30pm bus back to Inverness. We made it back to Inverness and walked around a bit before our train arrived. Finally, after a 4 hour train ride, we made it back to Edinburgh. Oh, and FINALLY I am posting pictures, sorry for the delay everyone! Hope everyone is doing well and will talk soon!

Oh, and FYI, we booked our plane tickets to Paris and will be leaving on 10th June and will be in Paris for 5 days! Can't wait! Hopefully there won't be an ash cloud from the Iceland volcano...

2 comments:

Mommom said...

Eat lots of yummy food for me!!!

Unknown said...

Thanks for sharing those super pictures with us! I take it you did not see Nessie?? Sounds like a relaxing weekend for you guys. Study hard prior to that Paris trip! :) Can't wait to see you next month.
Mum