Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Eye see me

So, for my birthday I went for a 'flight' on the London Eye with Mum. Thankfully the sky cleared up while we went on it. Here are the pics:

The pod Through the structure The view Mum
Me The view A pod Mmmm, cute. Yes, she was smiling at me!
The Thames Inside the pod The sunset

Sunday, September 18, 2005

Och eets Scotland

Finally, for all those who have been waiting(Dad), here are the photos from the trip to Scotland. We left early morning of the 29th August and spent the day driving from Milton Keynes up to Glasgow. On the way we stopped off in Chester, near Wales, to visit a friend of Mum's. We arrive at about 7pm to the hotel and then just relaxed a bit.
The Hotel's on the right

The next day I dropped Mum off at the airport as she was off to Norway while I travelled around Scotland. After dropping her off I picked up Caleb and Merren who'd just arrived from France. We drove across to Edinburgh that day and relaxed a bit then found our beds to get some rest before the trip.
Edinburgh

So this is where the trip starts... It was basically a backpacker tour and thankfully we only had 8 people on our tour which meant on a 16 seater bus we all had a spare seat. I won't put commentaries with the whole thing but there are descriptions if you mouse-over the pics.

William Wallace A knot in the wall The whole monument A Loch

Caleb on a Loch Boggy Marsh Eillan Donnan(?) Castle And again with some scenery

Rock and Seaweed Honeycomb rock Standing stones Our tourguide - Cath

Me Blue rope Fishing stuff A Broch - like a fort - from a few hundred years ago

Inside it More of it A Hairy Coo - cool looking animals Another one

and another one The Fairy Castle The tour group Chris on one of the mounds

Fairy Glen The Castle again Berries An ocean view

The edge Apparently Cliff didn't like people - so they built a fence to protect the locals A waterfall A little village

Our little fishing boat Our fishing catch A little red boat The place we stayed A nice view

And again across a Loch tree tops Cloud covered mountains underwater rocks

They actually have some nice beaches in Scotland And nice water My shadow Me

One of my sand drawings - it's a scottish guy in a kilt dancing A Seal Nice sunsets A rundown castle

Me on the castle Chris on the beach a rusty contraption My second drawing. Ran out of time on this one

Norse gravestone up close Good thing my name wasn't Cliff - otherwise I'd be hurled off the edge The northernmost point in Scotland

without people And with one person A nice lake

Standing stones from about 1000yrs ago Another ring of stones One of the earliest preserved villages - Scara Brae - This place was incredible One of the underground walkways. The whole village was underground

More of the village On the Orkney islands A nice wall Playing on the beach

Sunken warships a nice beach A pier with reflection Boats

A lighthouse Salmon swimming upstream A bit of nudity a replica of some famous statue

The castle we stayed in The castle with a ghost that looks like me More castle Inside the entrance - what's that in the right of the shot?

Same entrance - without ghosts The castle during the day The front door

One of the 100odd rooms Loch Ness Loch Ness Me with the Loch Ness monster

It's hard to read but this is where they bury Camerons(incase you were wondering Cam) See caption A whisky distillery Whisky Barrels

Old Whisky - Thes barrels would cost $20k+ if sold waterfalls waterfalls The group

A waterfall Me The bridges in Edinburgh Me and a bridge

Post box Back in Edinburgh

For those that know about our Royal connections and family titles and stuff these pics were from Prestongrange(one of the old Suttie estates) which is now the Royal Musselburgh Golf Club. I played golf here and then met Mum and we got the royal treatment.

One of the function rooms One of the function rooms One of the function rooms One of the function rooms The entrance

Me after golf The front door with our coat of arms above the door The back The back again Mum out the front
This was the main house at Balgone the Suttie family estate.
Balgone house

Dead Suttie tombstones More of the same Sir George same The Church - the Suttie crypt is almost right in the middle of the shot