
Eilean Donan Castle,
My cousins Sarah and Theresa are living together in Glasgow, Sarah’s doing mission work and Theresa is in grad. school. So in April I had the chance to travel to Scotland with some other cousins to visit them and see Scotland. We ended up getting an unexpected and unwanted stay in Iceland on the journey. Here’s a bit of what we did.
April 4th, 2019
on plane at 7:30 PM, headed to Iceland
April 5th, 2019
arrived in Scotland at 11 AM
horrible plane ride – very tired
toured Edinburgh
ghost tours in underground Edinburgh
tried Irn Bru (famous soda pop in Scotland)
ate fish & chips (mandatory street food)
mostly cloudy (not unusual)
April 6th
toured Glasgow
met some Scots
The Jackson’s: Lucy, John Joe, David and John, these guys work with Sarah
The Hall’s: David, and Nicholas, Nicholas is on Sarah’s team
bus tours
rained today (also not unusual)
random historic museum
tried Loren Sausage (Scottish breakfast sausage)
April 7th
mass at St.Gabriel’s
toured University of Glasgow
memorial chapel
Huntarian museum
high tea at the Willow Tea Room (complete with array of desserts and sandwiches)
dinner at Overlee’s Pub and pop quiz
met lots of people tonight
April 8th
drove to Loch Lomond
stopped at Glencoe
Fort William
dropped off luggage at airbnb
walked downtown and ate at Groc & Gruel
ate a black pudding burger
April 9th
Eilian Donan Castle
Isle of Skye
fairy pools (popular with kids here)
saw sheepies (Scottish term for, you guessed it, sheep)
had a picnic at Neist point Lighthouse
only island you can drive to from Scotland
April 10th
went to Glenfinnan
tried McDonald’s Scottish breakfast sandwich with their famous “brown sauce”
had Chinese food that night (pretty much anywhere you go)
April 11th
went to Inverness (Macbeth’s old stomping grounds)
Loch Ness
William Wallace monument (Yes, the Braveheart Scottish national hero)
tried Haggis (actually really good)
tried a tea cake
visited Sterling Castle
April 12th
Head home… we thought
flight to Iceland at 1:00
stuck on tarmac for 3 hours
stuck in Iceland that night, because it was too windy to have planes fly – 50 mph
stayed in an Iceland airport hotel (long night)
April 13th
ate hotel breakfast
went to continental drift points
Blue Lagoon – gysers
Edge of Iceland
flight canceled again
stayed at the Grand Hotel
mass at the Cathedral
April 14th
ate breakfast at Grand Hotel
went to airport to find out our flight was canceled again and there were no flights scheduled for us to leave
traveled the Golden Circle in Iceland (geysers, blue lagoon, volcanic features)
April 15th
flight to Canada
April 16th
flight home (sleep time)
Scotland is really beautiful, people are super friendly, interesting accent and lots of history and interesting architecture and landscapes. I would definitely go back…would just hope for a smoother flight.