Fark! Despite our attempts of slowing down this was ANOTHER massive day of driving. Only have ourselves to blame though because weve only been organising 1 day at a time.
Dan wanted to go to Loch Ness and in all fairnes we should have stopped on the way from Skye! But we didn't, so we drove that direction first stopping off at Balmoral Castle where he queen & her posse were currently staying. Couldn't get close enough to see the castle despite Dan trespassing on the royal golf course, but found out there was a distillery called the Royal Lochnager close by that we tried out. Great tastes but well above our price range!
Next stop was Tomatin distillery, a designer of cheaper blended whiskies which were pretty good for the price. Upon leaving the distillery some ol goose in his Fiat 500 decided it would be best to drive in the wrong lane while looking out his side window & came about 2 inches from smacking head on into us.
We chuckled afterwards as we considered how we would have explained 'that' to the hire car company. 'We had a crash... At a whiskey distillery... Yes, we had been drinking... No, we weren't moving when we were hit!'
After taking tiny hobbled roads through the mountainous farm land we finally arrived at Loch Nes. It was pretty windy but Dan managed to snap a pic of the famous monster!
Wasn't much else along the south side of Loch Ness except a dodgy walking trail that we had to retrace our steps on because the signage just ended about 75% of the way through the walk...
We ended up driving til 8pm past Form William before finding a busy picnic area on a Loch. Spent the night drinking some rough whiskey called Scottish Leader while writing & playing chess.
Dan wanted to go to Loch Ness and in all fairnes we should have stopped on the way from Skye! But we didn't, so we drove that direction first stopping off at Balmoral Castle where he queen & her posse were currently staying. Couldn't get close enough to see the castle despite Dan trespassing on the royal golf course, but found out there was a distillery called the Royal Lochnager close by that we tried out. Great tastes but well above our price range!
Next stop was Tomatin distillery, a designer of cheaper blended whiskies which were pretty good for the price. Upon leaving the distillery some ol goose in his Fiat 500 decided it would be best to drive in the wrong lane while looking out his side window & came about 2 inches from smacking head on into us.
We chuckled afterwards as we considered how we would have explained 'that' to the hire car company. 'We had a crash... At a whiskey distillery... Yes, we had been drinking... No, we weren't moving when we were hit!'
After taking tiny hobbled roads through the mountainous farm land we finally arrived at Loch Nes. It was pretty windy but Dan managed to snap a pic of the famous monster!
Wasn't much else along the south side of Loch Ness except a dodgy walking trail that we had to retrace our steps on because the signage just ended about 75% of the way through the walk...
We ended up driving til 8pm past Form William before finding a busy picnic area on a Loch. Spent the night drinking some rough whiskey called Scottish Leader while writing & playing chess.
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