If this is Friday, this must be.. where the hell am I?

Hi All

It has been a bit of a whirl wind tour of Britain, we have travelled and travelled, it has been exhausting, but fun... I have no idea what day it is most of the time and as Keaire has changed the date on the computer, so we can book things on the day (without the computer having a fit) I cannot check the date on there anymore... We have had a lovely relaxing break in Forfar, Scotland. With our wonderful friends Ally and Sheonagh... We leave this morning for Paris, I do beleive today is Friday. Three days there and then off to Luxembourg.

We went to Glamis Castle on Wednesday and to Scone Palace yesterday. I had previously been to Glamis, but I still really enjoyed it. It has a wonderful array of Royal memorabilia and some great stories are told about the life in the castle. I noticed they no longer tell you about the young page that froze to death one winter, sitting outside the bedchamber of the lady of the house, she had forgotten to dismiss him and he couldn't leave without being dismissed. His ghost is said to be still sitting there and occasionally trips visitors as they pass by. He no longer gets a mention, but they still tell you about the two men who played cards too late on a Saturday night and played on into the Sabbath, They are walled up in a room. You can still see the blocked up window from the outside of the castle, but the door is nonexistent, just a stone wall in one of the halls... barbaric stuff, but makes the tour really interesting.


The boarded up window at Glamis Castle

Scone Palace is really nice too, we had a lovely sunny day and although it was still cool, it was lovely. Sheonagh made us remove our coats for the pictures, I am sure she wants people to think Scotland is lovely and warm in the summer.... good luck with that She.... No it really was a lovely day. The Palace has some amazing rooms and it was a really great day. This is where all the Scotish Kings were crowned, until they joined monarchs with the English. I tried to find some Penman tartan, so that I can get a shoulder wrap in my own tartan, but no luck yet, it is a very obscure tartan. I think I will order some online, it would be great to wear the family tartan...


Sheonagh and I outside Scone Castle


Kearie sitting on the replica of the stone at Scone that the kings were crowned on. I think it is called the stone of destiny. THe british stole it in about 1200 or so and it wasn't returned to Scotland until just a few years ago. The real one is now kept in Edinburgh, although there are doubts about it's authenticity.


The maze at Scone Palace. The grounds were really lovely, but no real gardens that I saw.


We took She and Ally to dinner at Roos Leap, the Aussie restaurant in Montrose. Kearie had the best hamburger she has had in two years.... It was really good food and we had a lovely evening. Today we drop the car back at Edinburgh Airport and fly to France. It will be a real drag having to cart our luggage around again, you get very spoilt when you have your own transport and can leave stuff in the car every day.


She, Ally and I at Roos Leap


I love the Australian shaped push plates on the toilet doors at Roos Leap..

Cheers for now

Lones