March 25

Anybody home??

March 24

A gloriously sunny day today, with temperatures up to 15C!

March 23

March 22 -Spring is here!!

Following on from the dark winter, come the signs of spring...

March 21

Have wacky socks, will score a try... or 2 even!

March 20

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March 18

Camera or photograph???

March 17

One more road sign then:

March 16

Staying with road signs for a bit longer - it shows that snow is taken seriously up here in Scotland

March 15

Not sharp, as taken while driving past it, but the sign was too funny not to photograph.

Dead hog anyone?? Someone killed mine!

March 14

This is "Cats Castle" and it has been our home for the last 3 nights. Well, at least the servant's quarters at the back have been! Those have been converted to a self catering appartment called the Cats Whiskers.
A great location for exploring the area! Shame we have to go home now...

March 13

We took the scenic route from Dumbarton through the Trossacks towards Edinburgh, to get to the stadium for the Scotland-England rugby match.

Big views:



Loch Venachar with a fisherman... he caught a 15 pound pike:





Stirling Castle:

March 12

So hard to choose from today's photographs!! It was a gloriously sunny day, and we did quite a few miles sightseeing: from Dumbarton (where we stayed) along Loch Long and up to Loch Lomond. Then along Loch Lomond to the north corner where we drove on past Inverarnan and via Bridge of Orchy across Rannoch Moor. Passing Loch Tulla (still completely frozen over) to a place in the middle of Glen Coe: King House Hotel.
Time for lunch at Kings House Hotel in the middle of Glen Coe, and not only for us, but the deer were completely unafraid of people and eager to partake of the banana the German tourists had! Lovely to see them so close up, I was less than 15 inches away, awesome!
Then onwards through Glen Coe along Loch Leven towards Loch Linnhe southwards to Portnacroish. Then via Creagan along Loch Creran towards Connel and then Lochawe (nice ruin of a castle there) towards Inverary along Loch Fyne. Inverary is a nice town with a nice feel to it, and has a proper fairy tale kinda castle.
From there we drove back to Arrochar and along Loch Lomond and Loch Long back to Dumbarton - though we stopped for a meal in Cardross in the Coach House Inn: very nice people who served excellent food for reasonable money!

It has been a briliant day, what with the sun shining, and the snow on the mountain tops and the deer and the Lochs... So here a few of the pics, can't possibly just choose a single one!


Looking southwards along Loch Lomond:



One of the little islands in Loch Lomond:



This all took us along some of the route Andy walked during the summer of 2009 this was in Bridge of Orchy - you an see there is still snow on the ground up here..:



An impression of Rannoch Moor - very desolate, nothing around you whatsoever... beautiful area surrounded by snowy mountains:



Me in front of frozen Loch Tulla:



The stag deer (he had 5 does with him) posing to have his photograph taken:



A bit of a DIY project along the north end of Loch Awe:


Inverary Castle:

March 11

We are off to Scotland to do some sightseeing and to watch the Scotland vs England 6 Nations rugby match on Saturday!

March 10

March 9

Bertie:

March 8

Harry:

March 7

"Hench-man"?? :)

March 6

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March 2

See, it must be nearly spring... I've started spring cleaning and washed the curtains and the garden chairs also got cleaned. They even got used at lunchtime as we sat outside in the sunshine to drink a cup of tea and have our lunch. It was lovely!

March 1

Spring is on it's way!