Scotland '91


Here are a few glimpses from my first trip to Scotland. I traveled there with my father, dividing a too-short 10 days between London (see England '91 section) and Edinburgh. Thumbnails work as usual.
Edinburgh Castle The first picture is of Edinburgh Castle, standing majestically over the city skyline.
Next up is a view of Loch Katrine, old stomping grounds of the infamous Rob Roy MacGregor. (OK, the movie was good, but it wasn't about the REAL Rob Roy.) The bus ride up to the Trossachs to see this atmosphere-laden loch was a day well spent! Loch Katrine
cattle These are Highland cattle, the shaggy beasts which roam the Scottish meadows. Well, there's sheep, too, but they're not the focus of this picture. But there they are in the background!
My dad took this picture. You can tell because that's MY hand getting licked! cow
scott My first glimpse of the famous Sir Walter Scott Memorial was a little disappointing. Swathed in scaffolding, it wasn't much of a sight, but it still made a nifty picture.
While dad headed up to St. Andrews, I hopped a train west to Linlithgow, then to Stirling, site of William Wallace's most famous battle and home to this gorgeous castle. I took the photo in Queen Anne's Garden. stirling
connery Just when we thought the adventure was over, with nothing ahead of us but a flight from Edinburgh to Heathrow and then back to the States, we had this stroke of fortune: spotting Sean Connery on our flight!



"The national dish of Scotland is something called haggis, the specific ingredients of which I won't go into other than to say that if you can visualize boiled, inside-out road kill, you're pretty close." - David Grimes, newspaper columnist

"It was the haggis, a brownish lump sitting unobtrusively to one side of the plate, that drew the most riveting attention. ... Some people approached their haggis with extreme misgivings." - Tom Knapp, newspaper reporter


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