this trip's overview

San Francisco to Glasgow

Babbity Bowster, Glasgow

Babbity theme

Glasgow

George Square, Glasgow

Glasgow shopping

Glasgow for kids

Culzean Castle

Aberfoyle, Trossachs

Doune Castle

Sterling Castle

Ballachulish

Corpach, Ft. Williams

Loch Ness

Glenfinnan

Pink Guest House, Isle of Skye

Brae Ness, Inverness

Urquhart Castle

The Summer Isles

Ibis, Edinburgh

Omi in Edinburgh

Edinburgh Castle

The Witchery

Craigmuller Castle

back to Glasgow

Edinburgh to Düsseldorf

restaurant recommendations

O ye`ll tak` the high road,
And I'll tak` the low road,
And I'll be in Scotland afore ye.
But me and my true love will never meet again,
By the bonnie, bonnie banks o` Loch Lomond.

Today we're driving through the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park (Pairc Naiseanta Loch Laomainn is nan Troisichean).

Aberfoyle is the first town in which we stop for a stroll. The kids really needed to stretch their legs. Here you see Lila racing ahead of Rose, towards The Forth Inn, in which I wanted to lunch. The kids, however, were in no mood to have a sit-down meal, so we passed it by...

... in favor of a Tesco? Rose really loves shopping the shelves, finding delicacies to which we're unfamiliar. (And she's really good at it. We've dined on some spectacular finds.) Isaac is digging through a bin, looking for goodness knows what. (But he's happy, so I'm happy.)

There's something profound about a Scottish store having a Tex Mex section, but I was too taken aback to write it down.

Having purchased our snacks, and nibbling on them in the car, we head away from town in favor of the greenery. Here's another nice, quiet place at which we stopped.

Unfortunately I took no still pictures of the piper we met around here. I have some video, which I'll try to convert someday.

Now it's time to head over to Doune Castle.