Urquhart Castle on Lock Ness, Scotland

I'm getting so frustrated because I write blogs for each day, take my iPad around on our excursion hoping to find wifi in a cafe or hotel. The good news is we have found it on every lunch off the ship, I am able to publish it, then it disappears! I enjoy writing them, but not if all my work is gone, and with it my memories about each day. Hopefully I can somehow find out where they went and recover them.

Today we went to Loch Ness and saw no signs of Nessie. We did see the Urquhart Castle ruins. We had a nice warm day today, probably in the 70's.



The Loch was very pretty. We stopped for lunch at a local hotel and had chicken breast with sauce/gravy for the 5th time in a row fed to us on every excursion. We can hardly stomach it again, but those professional cruise eaters had no problem downing it again!

We then drove to the city of Inverness. I loved the city! It had very old buildings, a pedestrian street on the banks of a beautiful river.


It was a nice "time on our own" wandering around town. Our tour guide asked if he could join the three of us for that time. He ended up giving us a private tour. I seemed to catch his eye and throughout the next few hours he basically continued to give us a private tour of Cawdor Castle, our last stop. He did have another 40 people on the tour, but he followed us and gave us the details, and followed us in the gift shop and followed us outside the castle. It was very sweet that he was taking such good care of us, especially when he wasn't giving much attention the the other people, but then it got to be just a bit creepy. He said if I fell down the steps he'd be sure to catch me, held my hand coming down other steps and gave me a squeeze, and then whispered to me as we left the tour, " stay good lookin"! He was pretty cute with his plaid Scottish pants, so his little compliments were kind of tempting. He was quite a guy....kayaked across the whole Loch Ness, flew airplanes, and drew a diagram at the request of the Duke for display in his castle. It seemed as though he knew the late Duke and now the current Duchess. Did I mention that he was 77 years old...yep! Really just a sweet guy maybe hoping he was 27 years younger!

Of course my camera battery died and I didn't bring a spare because it never runs out, so, no pictures of my new buddy Clem or the castle.






And....our traditional beer shot!

Good thing we have have our beer everyday because we need the distraction from the irritating people that are in our herd for the day. You know the ones....the #$&@ women who sat behind us on the bus, and the parents and 15 year old daughter who $&@#.... well, you know. Maybe tomorrow we can beg for two beers with our 6th chicken lunch!!

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Location:Inverness