Day Five
Today we are going to Inverness in the Scottish Highlands
and we’re going to (maybe) see Nessie, the Loch Ness monster. :)
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| Appetizer Nachos |
We took an early train to Inverness (2 train changes) and
got there late morning. We went straight
to lunch at an American diner called the Filling Station. Shellie got the appetizer Nachos which was
basically a whole family size bag of chips!
Then we walked to the river Ness that goes through downtown and hung out
in the bus station waiting for our tour.
Our tour guide for Loch Ness was really engaging and very good (our tour
was through Jacobite). He drove us out
to Loch Ness where we boarded a catamaran and drove out on the lake (loch) for
about 30 minutes. The area around the
lake is mostly undeveloped and beautiful.
We docked at Urquhart (er-kirt) Castle and toured he grounds for about
45 minutes – it didn’t look that big, but there were lots of places to
explore. On the way to the visitors
center we passed a large Trebuchet (like a medieval catapult), and I saw the
guy from YouTube’s Slingshot Channel! He
was filming with a small crew and checking out the trebuchet. We love watching that guy’s inventions and it
was cool to see him there. The grounds
were beautiful and we watched a short film in the visitor’s center on the
history of the castle and it was not to be missed – it has a surprise ending!
On the way back to St. Andrews there was a super drunk and
obnoxious kid (18?) on the train – he got in a fight with the steward and then
locked himself in the bathroom and we couldn’t get him out, so we missed our
connection. Luckily we were close enough
to find another connection and got back just before dinner closing at 10. This time we ate at Mitchell’s Deli which is
in the same building at Forgan’s and owned by the same people, but it’s
different food. We had really good
dinner there and the waitstaff was really nice.
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