KitaScot
Medal Winner
A long overdue tribute to Scotland...I had too much family "stuff" that kept me from completing the album of pix but coming back to them last month brought my memories back full blast with great feelings....
Here it is....
https://imageshack.us/a/lMBl/1
I hope those of you who have not yet visited Scotland will find the time to drive beyond the fairways as I did....if you love driving back roads you'll love Scotland
Here you'll find 400 or so pix taken on links and between rounds, from New Lanark in the south (Robert Owens' Utopian socialist community) to Durness Golf Club in the north, in small towns and Edinburgh and Glasgow too.
I drove more than 2500 miles around Scotland in 3 weeks, getting to see a lot of greenery as well as greens...mostly on single lane country roads with cut outs for others driving faster than me or coming from where I was heading...
Courtesy of AirBnB, I ate in city kitchens and country kitchens, apartments and condos with furniture that still had the store tags on them.
I ate venison at The Old Course during the Dunhill Championship, and fish 'n chips at the Happy Haggis (perhaps more Japanese, tempura than Scottish)....and got a good whiff of Old Pulteney that'll stay with me for a long long time.
I did get haggis courtesy of one of my AirBnB hosts, not to worry....as well as ice cream made with port and stout (you'll see the line of people waiting to get in Mary's Milk Bar cones while I ate mine.)
I spent hours in castles empty of crowds but full of spirit, and in other castles, museum-like full of people who were fun to watch...as were the museum works themselves, and took quiet times in churches and cathedrals.
I heard Mozart in beautiful concert halls, and modern "folk" fusion in the northern Highlands played by young folk who have a real link to my youthful music of Van Morrison, as well as more traditional Scottish music made by retirees my own age...as well as jazz by Scots whose links go back to swing bands of the 30s but who rock the blues too.
You'll see the photos of them all and more, all interspersed with my golf views...so enjoy my trip as much as I did....and if you go, try to get off the course and drive down some country roads...
....and many many thanks to those here who made so much of my trip possible.
Here it is....
https://imageshack.us/a/lMBl/1
I hope those of you who have not yet visited Scotland will find the time to drive beyond the fairways as I did....if you love driving back roads you'll love Scotland
Here you'll find 400 or so pix taken on links and between rounds, from New Lanark in the south (Robert Owens' Utopian socialist community) to Durness Golf Club in the north, in small towns and Edinburgh and Glasgow too.
I drove more than 2500 miles around Scotland in 3 weeks, getting to see a lot of greenery as well as greens...mostly on single lane country roads with cut outs for others driving faster than me or coming from where I was heading...
Courtesy of AirBnB, I ate in city kitchens and country kitchens, apartments and condos with furniture that still had the store tags on them.
I ate venison at The Old Course during the Dunhill Championship, and fish 'n chips at the Happy Haggis (perhaps more Japanese, tempura than Scottish)....and got a good whiff of Old Pulteney that'll stay with me for a long long time.
I did get haggis courtesy of one of my AirBnB hosts, not to worry....as well as ice cream made with port and stout (you'll see the line of people waiting to get in Mary's Milk Bar cones while I ate mine.)
I spent hours in castles empty of crowds but full of spirit, and in other castles, museum-like full of people who were fun to watch...as were the museum works themselves, and took quiet times in churches and cathedrals.
I heard Mozart in beautiful concert halls, and modern "folk" fusion in the northern Highlands played by young folk who have a real link to my youthful music of Van Morrison, as well as more traditional Scottish music made by retirees my own age...as well as jazz by Scots whose links go back to swing bands of the 30s but who rock the blues too.
You'll see the photos of them all and more, all interspersed with my golf views...so enjoy my trip as much as I did....and if you go, try to get off the course and drive down some country roads...
....and many many thanks to those here who made so much of my trip possible.
