Tour to Glencoe and Loch Ness

 Today was a twelve hour day which started with us walking about 1.6 Kms to  the pickup location.

This tour was absolutely fantastic with both the itinerary and the driver/courier (same person). The fellow was really engaging with lots of jokes throughout the day, really informative history and a few extra stops not shown on the tour manifest. We were having such a good time that he had us singing by the time we came back into the city ( 500 miles- The Proclaimers). He said we did 350 miles today.

First off we saw Stirling Castle ( just a fly by on the highway) followed shortly afterwards by a fly by of the battle of Bannockburn.

First stop was the town of Callander- cute little town.

A photo op or two later we arrived at Glencoe. It was just as beautiful as I remember from 1980. I had wanted to show Caro the Highlands ( especially the Glencoe area). It was cool and windy but no rain.

SO MANY beautiful locations to take photos!

We arrived at Fort Augustus  (next to Loch Ness)  about 1:30 and we had chosen not to go on the on lake catamaran tour so we we had plenty of time to explore. The wind was quite strong and cool so after taking a few photos of Loch Ness we walked the small town and then went to a restaurant where we shared a plate of fish and chips.

Three boats needed to use the canal locks so we got to watch the process as they completed one of the series of locks.

A final stop ( in the dark) was at a beautiful Victorian resort of Pitlochry.

The driver suggested we try the whiskey infused ice cream which was pretty good ( but not exceptional).

As we loaded onto the bus for the last time the driver asked all of us for a  song each which he immediately downloaded and we listened to favourites of any of the passengers who chose to recommend something.

We arrived back to pouring rain but only had to walk half the distance of this morning.