Still in Scotland....

Well, we met up with our coach, well, the coach to take us to our coach..... we got on the proper coach, with all the right people and we were introduced to our driver/guide Bryan. He was a typical Scot with the typical humour. He even came dressed in a kilt. He got to driving, and after picking up everyone on the way out of Edinburgh, he had everyone introduce themselves. Bryan sure loved the family from Wisconsin... and knew right off to refer to them as Cheeseheads. They were good natured enough to actually LIKE being called cheeseheads. We had a LONG drive ahead of us, but along the way as we travelled through Glencoe we were given the history of the Jacobites and the revolutions. (Jacobites being followers of King James of Scotland). We got to go by Ft. William where Jamie Fraser ( The Outlander Series) was imprisoned. We stopped for lunch at Sprean Bridge just after Fort William. (on the tip of Loch Linnhe). After lunch, we travelled on up to Loch Ness in search of Nessie. At Loch Ness we got onto a boat for an hour ride up the Loch in search of Nessie. But don't even ask Biologist Ricky about Nessie, cos he doesn't believe in such nonsense. He did tell us about the large fish and also carnivore fish down below. Ricky was definately Scottish as one of his first comments were " we have GPS for two reasons: one-we are Scottish, two- we have a bar!" The humour went on as such for the next hour. The loch was amazing and if you looked at the sonar of the loch.. you would see just how deep the crevase of the loch is. After the boat ride, we got back onto the coach... Bryan began swerving back and forth and commented "honestly, I only had four pints of beer while you were on the boat..... chuckle chuckle" We rode on up to the top of the loch were we visited Urquhart Castle (or what is left of it). When the Scots abandoned it.. they destroyed it. The drive after the castle was long and slow, but we soon cruised into Inverness where we started back down the coast of Scotland. This is where everyone napped whilst Bryan played Scottish music. I slept, Mum slept... but as the Corries began to play I woke up. I was sooooooo chuffed to hear Bryan including The Corries in his forte. (Corries are my all time favourite scottish folk music.) The trek down into Perth, well around Perth, was very familier.... then I saw the railroad... and this was the route i took in 2002 from Edi to Inverness to get to Isle of Skye. The coach passangers snoozed on until we got to Pithlochry our next and final loo and snack stop. After Pithlochry, it was all down hill into Edi. Bryan dropped everyone off at central locations. As he dropped Mum and I off, I gave him a tip of 10 lbs sterling and commented "now you don't have to tell the wifey that you spent money on 4 pints of beer" he laughed. We hoofed it up to High Street and had dinner at a nice Italian trattoria.. we both had seafood risotto... WAY too much food. The wine was fair. We went back to the 3rd floor walked and collapsed on the beds and crashed.