Our hotel – Edinbugh Waldorf Astoria – The Caladonia. A venerable Horel, recently refurbished. Lots of excitement – room mixup, misplaced luggage, and room door barred from inside by a misplaced latch. All sorted eventually.
Thistle on table in hotel lobby.
Amazing flower arrangement at hotel – especially giant allium.
View of Ediburgh from the castle
Cemetery for regimental and officer dogs at the castle.
Best part of Ediburgh IMHO is the National Museum where we saw a special Celts exhibit and a special fossil hunters exhibit that focused on the Romer gap – 15 million years when first tetrapods came on land from the water and no fossil record had been found. The gap was closed by a Scot who found the relevant fossils on the border between Scotland and England.
The Old Rectory Inn in Callander
Full Scottish breakfast includes black pudding, haggis, and tatie scone (the triangle)
Local ‘wild life’, actually very friendly
Park across the street from the inn
Loch Katrine
More Katrine
Local lore
The Lake House
Roman fort
The gathering
The cottage
The garden
More garden
On the Go with John and Jessie 