Loch Ness

It's been over 24 hours without a steak bake, its 7 20pm and gregg's shut at 5pm. I don't think I'll make it through the night…

Apart from that we started the day at 6 55am to get ready for our tour of the highlands and loch ness. We had breakfast and walked across the road to where we were getting picked up. The bus was just over a minute late giving Lauren time to think it wasn't coming and that we'd miss out on the tour, fortunately one minute after scheduled it arrived. 

The first stop was a little cafe where we met hamish, a posing 70 year old highland cow with a fringe larger than what you'd see on an emo at flinders street station. We would have liked to put some photo's in this blog but I'm still on my phone so tomorrow we are heading to an Internet cafe to post some. 

After meeting hairy Scotland's next top model hamish, we drove through Glen Coe (also known as Glen of the weeping) which was a town around the 1600's that was a destroyed by massacre when they were attacked in the black of night by a group of men seeking hospitality in their town. 

Around 12 30pm we stopped for lunch in Spean bridge home to the most expensive fish ($24 per piece) and most intense 70 odd year old Scottish woman selling it. We opted for the slightly cheaper chips and bacon sandwich ($6) but still just as good. 

Shortly after we hit the highlands which are absolutely stunning with cloud tipped mountains and great mile spanning loch's. It is a truly stunning geographical area. (again we will add a few pictures tomorrow). 

We arrived at Loch Ness around 1 30pm and had a quick look around before we jumped on the boat that took us up the Loch for an hour. It was such a good experience cruising up a piece of water that you are so often told about in your younger years and still presently reminded of every now and then. We got a few good pictures and it turns out the Loch Ness Monster was smaller and fluffier than we both thought and was sitting in my hood the whole time (and only cost £2.40 at the gift shop). An interesting thing about Loch Ness is that the water is a dark brown as opposed to clear as seen in most lakes (and possibly the reason why the loch ness monster can remain hidden?). 

After seeing Loch Ness we headed further north circumnavigating the Loch itself and taking a quick tour through Inverness which is the biggest northern village of Scotland with the furthest north British railway station. It was a nice place then from there we headed south back towards Edinburgh. 

Our last stop of the tour was pitlochry, a small village about an hour and a bit from Edinburgh itself. Our journey back to Edinburgh was quite nice passing some amazing scenery and the more iconic Scottish railway bridge considered one of the greatest engineering feats of Europe. 

Getting back to the hotel was nice after doing over 600km's today. 
We will be posting up photo's tomorrow so you can see them soon. 

Well it's bed time tonight so we will update again sometime tomorrow. 

Have fun and stay safe, 
Kristian & Lauren.