Bonnie Scotland

Okay, I have been able to edit the previous post and put some photos up!!

The shot of Sue in the camper is at a little place on England's coast called Scarborough - when we told the guy in York we were heading here it was as though we told him we were driving to the moon - lets just say, that he and his wife have never been to London!!! so our hour and a half drive to Scarborough was nothing for us Eskites!

Well, we are now in Scotland! Edinburgh in fact, this is our second day here - the weather when we arrived was great but today it is raining.... we took one of the bus tours around town , which really is the best way of seeing a city as historic as this - it really is magical - the sound of bagpipes coming from all corniers of the city is just spooky! Oh... we also picked up the camper van from York - it has been great fun making our way up here - mainly on the east coastline - so we have seen the beach - which is quite similar to our Victorian beaches .. we noticed too, that the English countryside is quite like Gippsland - rolling green hills, masses of trees separating properties ... the Scottish landscape is very hilly, with great historic castles way on top of hills..the paddocks are filled with sheep!

There are a gazillion tourists here and a megazillion tourist shops - so we have managed to buy anything and everything "Drummond" .. along with tartan stubbie coolers, t-shirts... underwear - everything! We have been walking around in the rain, but it just adds to the mystique of Edinburgh - and it won't surprise anyone to hear that we have managed to visit just about every second hand clothes store in the city, there are alot! They don't, however, have fill a bag for $5 like our shop in Esk - which is probably a good thing as our bags are bulging as it is and Sue is thinking of buying a second bag to get our gear home!

Tomorrow we will continue our journey up to Perth and then to St Andrews... we are looking forward to getting also to Inverness and to see Loch Ness , then coming down again to get to Glasgow and everything in between.

Talk again soon

Melissa and Sue