I've been to Scotland!!!!

That’s it! I’ve been to Scotland. Spent the weekend in Loch Ness on the 24-26 June and absolutely loved it. Beautiful. If it had a beach it would be perfect. By beach I mean beach with big waves and surf etc, oh and hot weather!

Flew to Inverness with Brian (my first Scottish friend yay!) and went and saw Fat Boy Slim play on the shores of Loch Ness on the Saturday night. Although its not really my kinda music, I have to admit that man is quite a musical genius. The crowd was absolutely pumping, it was amazing. The crowd was about 25,000 people, and it was crazy! The little town of Dores where the concert was obviously wasn’t too sure what to expect however, because at the end of the night they only had about 30 buses to try and get the 25,000 people back to Inverness. So a large number of people decided to start walking. Myself and Brian included. It’s eight miles from Inverness to Dores, we thought after a few miles the buses might have taken the majority of people back and pick us up on the way, but we were sadly mistaken!

There is only one road in/out of the town to Inverness, so with people walking all over the road and buses trying to make there way in and out as well as police and events people etc, it was absolute mayhem. To cut a long story short, we walked about seven miles before we finally managed to jump in a taxi with two people that were walking a wee way infront of us, and the taxi took us the remainder of the short distance home. I was absolutely knackered! After jumping around and dancing in a paddock like a mad woman all day and then walking seven miles, I think a lot of people would be exhausted.

The next day we headed to Fort Augustus at the top of Loch Ness and spent two days on Brian’s parents yacht. It was awesome. So relaxing and got to see the scenery first hand. We spent Sunday sailing around the Loch, you can’t actually drop anchor because it is so deep the anchor’s don’t reach the bottom. Later in the evening we went to the pub and had a few drinks with his parents before having dinner. The food was nice, I had steak pie and vegetables which went down so well having a hot dinner after a cold day out on the water.

It was a late night to bed as it didn’t actually get dark up there. The sun just sorta goes down a little bit before it comes back up again, but it doesn’t go all the way down. The next day we got up and went up the canal through the locks. This was an interesting thing to watch. I think those locks are the work of a genius the way they fill up and empty out the way they do! I was given the job of guiding the yacht from the front to make sure it didn’t hit any other boats in the locks. I didn’t do a bad job for my first time I reckon! Geordie (Brian’s dad might beg to differ!)

In the afternoon it was very unfortunate that I had to go back to London. Brian and I got back in the car and drove back to Inverness where a neighbour of his parents dropped us off at Inverness to get our flight back to Gatwick. Landing in London it was slightly warmer than at Loch Ness, but it was rainy and drizzly. I spent the next week seriously considering why I came back to London. Scotland was really beautiful. The kind of place I reckon my Pop would like.

I will definatley go back there. There are just so many places on my 'to see' list. Speaking of which, Paris is next!!!

Still can't figure out why it won't let me upload photos at the moment. Blog is looking very bland at the moment with all this text. I was always good at writing essays..........

Take care all. More soon.