One week ago, our son, one of our daughters and a grandson landed in Paris to spend three weeks with us while we tool around the UK. Scotland and Ireland are new to us and to them, so it's been a great week of "firsts". My stepdaughter has a friend she met while Vine was still a thing, four kids, the youngest of which is about the same age as our grandson. We are at the gateway of many hikes and in peak season here, and were lucky to find an AirBNB in the town her friend lives in, Fort William. It's about 1.5 hours south of Edinburgh. It's a quaint town with fantastic view, a bunch of green, green hills, and a loch aka lake next to the high street downtown.
First we took a plane from Paris to Edinburgh. Spent the night in Edinburgh and relished the highs in the 60's! It felt sooooo good after the horrible AC in our Ibis hotel at the CDG airport in Paris. The grumpy clerk at the front desk told us, "you Americans like your AC too cold". Never again Ibis, never again. What we heard was "we do not like you Americans staying in our hotel", so we will duly note that and not be back. Edinburgh is a quaint town, and we would love to go back and explore more. We took the train the next day to Glasgow and fell in love with that city as well. We will be back to visit more. Then onto the train from Glasgow to Fort William, the lovely little town we stay in for five days.
From Fort William, it's only 1.5 hours to Loch Ness, so off we went in a rental on day three to go see Nessie! Lovely drive, and after a hiccup at the rental car agency, we finally got in our car two hours late. Inverness is the town we aimed for, and picked up some great gifts for family and selves as well as trying on a million Harris Tweed hats. I am truly not a hat person. It's ok, but I keep trying!
We like Haggis, and Black Pudding and are going to have a home cooked "bacon roast" tonight for dinner, I'll keep you posted on how that goes over. Ok, update, the roast was spectacular.
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