Following the infantryman with yellow flag

Just realized I never properly explained the Wales situation that prevented updating. While the place that we stayed in was comfy and very homey, it also wasn't the most high-tech of establishments. Hence, no internet access. The "check-in" process involved us following the family dog upstairs where the wife was watching tv with the little boy. Then after we introduced ourselves, it was kinda "well, we don't have a credit card machine, so...you owe twenty quid".

Anyhoo, on to today!

Today we arrived at the meeting point for our Loch Ness tour at 7:30am, our tour guide Kevin (actually its spelled the Gaelic way but I can't remember what that is) at 7:45 and the other 5 people in our group a little after. At 8am we hopped on the bus and began our tour.

Now, while I'd love to go on in detail about this tour, there was just soooooo much that we learned that my brain is a little frightened at the prospect of relaying it. So, simply put, this tour was amazing. We didn't get back to the Royal Mile until 7:30pm.

Kevin was so awesome, telling us the history of everything we were passing and including in his own life stories and a lot of jokes. If he didn't know the answer to something he just jokingly made up something about Jesus or the Bible. Funsies!

We saw a bunch of castles and lochs, stopped at a couple of them. We stopped in a village called Callander and had some hot cocoa and haggis roll for breakfast. Also visited Hamish the cow whilst there. I took a lot of lovely nature pictures. Scotland is gorgeous. The Highlands are amazing, and it isn't even Spring yet.

We stopped in at Loch Ness for a good hour and a half, but sadly no sign of Nessie. After romping about we popped into the local pub for a burger and a pint. Delicious. We continued on from there and wandered around to Fife, which has a lot of history to it. Of the Scottish history he relayed, I super enjoyed the real stories of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce and also the origins of the word blackmail.

Our guide was actually in the film about Robert the Bruce, he played Infantryman with yellow flag. That's his claim to fame.

We stopped one last time for a bit of Scottish whiskey and some conversation in Pichtol (???). It was really fun getting to know more about everyone in the group. Two were from Holland (the guy looked like the human version of Beaker from Muppets), one from Wisconsin (studying abroad for a year), and the other two from Ireland & Scotland.

It was just really really fun. Everyone was really into the tour and Kevin just made it a blast. He kind of reminds me of Craig Ferguson, but younger and with less of a schnoz going on.

I did take loads of photos so you'll get to see them when I get back.

Oh, and there was like a million rainbows, because it is constantly misty up there. SO PRETTY!!!

Tonight we're gonna hit up another pub and hang with the locals I guess.

Tomorrow is Edinburgh castle, maybe St. Andrews and then on to Glasgow. 'Night!