Postcard From The Highlands
Last weekend, my sister and I headed to Scotland for a wedding. Naturally, I jumped at the chance to go. Scotland has long been absent from my list of visited countries, so to tick it off was great. It would have been nicer to have spent some more time in the mountains rather than tearing about from one place to another, but in all, it was a very nice weekend. The photo above was taken from the edge of Loch Achray.
We’d travelled to Scotland via the unconventional method of an overnight train, namely, the Caledonian Sleeper. And sleep I did… for a couple of hours.
We arrived in Edinburgh just before 07h00 and were booted off the train shortly after that. We had an hour or so to kill before our next connection, so we wandered the eerily quiet streets. Edinburgh seemed very nice indeed.
Having continued our journey to Pitlochry, my sister and I rested from the chilly breeze in Victoria’s for a not-so-traditional Scottish lunch. The food was thoughtful and wholesome and the cafe itself was very pleasant inside.
The weather was very changable. Brilliant sunshine one minute, heavy rain the next. Even snow was forecast in some areas above 800ft. At least though you could see it coming. There’s something very ‘Norwegian Fjords’ about this photo.
Idyllic scenes of the Scottish Highlands were in abundance. Everything that you imagine to be there; greenery, conifers, craggy rocks and changeable skies full of varying colour were present.
This was the scene from the window of our accommodation, an old and grand mansion. The mountains in the background are the Trossachs with Ben A’an the highest of the peaks. Will I be going back to Scotland? Certainly! I didn’t get my fill of the beautiful and dramatic scenery, nor did I manage to climb a mountain, such was the rushed nature of the weekend. Scotland is so near, I’d be mad not to explore it some more.
