What we decided to do when leaving Fort William was split up our drive with a stop in Stirling and a trip to the castle. I got some nice pictures on the drive. Jay and I had a running joke as we're driving. We would see something and say "wow, look at that, that's beautiful...no, not you, you're driving. Eyes on the road". The roads were so narrow and windy that really you had to pay attention to the road.
It was about 2 hours to the castle.
We had lunch at a pub beside the castle and then headed off to Glasgow to our hotel, just about a 40 minute drive. Once we arrived, since we only had the afternoon in Glasgow and we fly home tomorrow, we decided to do a hop on hop off bus tour.
At hotel reception they recommended that if we were only going to get off at one stop that it should be #2, the cathedral and necropolis, which were really the only ones we had wanted to visit anyway. The nearest stop to us was #11, so we went there and waited for the big red City Sightseeing double decker open top "look at me I'm a silly tourist sitting on top of a bus in 10 degree weather when there is an enclosed heated bottom section" bus. We saw the bus, which was running about 15 minutes behind schedule and stood up at the bus stop to catch it, but it looked like it wasn't going to stop! So at the last minute I waved at the driver and she screeched to a halt, pulled over while yelling and waving..we got on and she said "we share the stops with the city buses, so if you want this bus you have to wave your arms big" (making big sweeping motions) ..ok, because I don't already feel like an idiot climbing onto this bus, but whatever. So around the city we went and I took a few photos (which you can only really get the good ones by sitting in the open top!).
The University.
So we got around the loop to the last stop #24, then the bus would start the loop again at #1 and we would get off at #2 for the cathedral and necropolis...but no. This particular bus stopped at 24 for the day and said thank you very much, off the bus now.
Well, thankfully stop 24 and stop 11 are not across the city from one another, but they certainly could have been!! As luck would have it we were only about a 6 minute walk from the hotel. So we headed back, had showers, chilled out and waited to go out for dinner. After dinner we facetimed with the girls. Mom had sent us this photo today of Sophie with the subject line "Happy Camper". She cut her hair!!
I showed Jay and he said "who authorized that?" So funny, Mom had said the other day that Sophie wanted her hair cut and she had trimmed it about an inch but she wanted more but Gram said she had to check with me first. I said to let her cut off as much as she wants. Then Jay said "Good for her! Now people wil be able to tell them apart at least".
Now we're just at the airport waiting to get on the airplane. We depart in about 40 minutes. This morning Jay said to me on the way here "if someone said to you now they would pay for you to stay on vacation for another week, would you?" I said "would I have to stay in Glasgow?" No. "Absolutely, you can fly so cheap here - I'd fly somewhere else, maybe Ireland or Spain...for sure I would stay". Jay - no way, he's ready to come home. He misses home, which we both agree is our favourite place in the world...
No comments:
Post a Comment