On the Go with John and Jessie

Off on our cross country odyssey. First stop, dinner at the Martin Horel. We shared the meal with a woman from northwest Oregon on her way to leave her dogs with her daughter in central coast California while she did a four- week tour to Europe – 2 weeks walking in England, 2 weeks with her daughter and son-in law who live in Munich. She reminded me of our swim coach and she thought, quite adamantly, that Poole was a type of corn meal. 

We stayed  at the New Frontier RV Park, which is fairly new and pretty good and gives a Passport America discount.

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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.

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Tigh Blath B&B our first Airbnb stay. Jacqui our hostess in the house built by her father. She’s an electrician, no mean feat for a woman.

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West House

Ullapool

Another view

Ullapool in distance – on our way to Inverewe Gardens

Ewe Island

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 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

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 The Lake House

Roman fort

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The gathering

The cottage

The garden

More garden

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We visited the national historic site Experimental Breeder Reactor 1.

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