Sunday, July 17, 2011

Prepare to be jealous

It's finally done!  Scotland is planned and locked in.  Now my only concern is that I have over planned.  We recently had the discussion of the difference between being a tourist and vacationing.  We are vacationing, but still want to see lots.  If you spend too much time rushing around and looking at things you are being a tourist, not vacationing.  What do you think?

Sept 28      Leaving LAX 11:00 a.m.
Sept 29      Arrive London, Heathrow at 08:35 a.m.  (it's 11 hours but we stop shortly in Toronto), spend the day looking around London, then a sleeper train from London at 11:50 p.m.
Sept 30      Train arrives in Glasgow, Scotland at 7:19 in the morning.  Puruse Glasgow for a few hours then catch a short train to Weymss (weems) Bay and finally a ferry to the Isle of Bute,
Oct 1         Isle of Bute, our ancestral home.

Main Street of Rothesay, Capital of Bute

Canada Cottage - Ancestral family home
 Oct 2         Isle of Bute
Island countryside
Oct 3         Isle of Bute
Oct 4         Return Ferry, train to Glasgow then catch train to Inverness in the North Highlands of Scotland
Oct 5         Inverness
Inverness Castle
Oct 6         Inverness
Oct 7         Leaving Inverness by train to Edinburgh.
Oct 8         Edinburgh


Oct 9         Edinburgh

Oct 10       Edinburgh








Oct 11  Leave Edinburgh by train to Newcastle on the northeast coast of England to catch a ferry which will take us to Amsterdam.  20 hour, overnight ferry - like Las Vegas on the water we hear!

Castles, cathedrals, pubbing, gorgeous accents, kilts.  How bad can it be??  Well, there is Haggis, but we've pledged to try it in the spirit of adventure.  Let you know how THAT turns out.

Becky

2 comments:

  1. Very nice schedule, I think I will call you ladies tourcationers....

    Peggy

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  2. Hi Becky & Dee, Would you be so kind as to tell me why you are presenting 2 of my photos (Photos 2 & 3) as yours??? Photo 2 is of 'me' taken in front of 'MY" ancestral home in June 2000. Photo 3 is my husband talking to the present owner in the back yard of Canada Cottage. Where did you get these photos & why are you presenting them falsely as 'yours'...even going so far as to date them??
    A very confused & annoyed Jeanette

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