Scotland

Sightseeing·11:00 AM – 1:00 PM·28 photos

Kelpies

A couple of hours at the Kelpies near Falkirk on a grey, breezy September morning, with the two steel horse heads towering over the lawns and the canal basin. Margaret and John took selfies on the grass with both heads behind them, then walked in close for the view straight up the muzzle, out to the lock gates for the side-on angle, and around the pool at the base where John stood for a photo. A storyboard along the way explained the Clydesdales behind the sculptures and how four workers assembled them on site. Overcast skies suited the metal perfectly — it made the plates look even more like shifting light on water.

Sightseeing·11:00 AM – 6:30 PM·111 photos

Tantallon Castle

Impressive castle on the cliffs of the North Sea that was started in 1358 and destroyed in 1651.

Sightseeing·5:00 PM – 11:00 PM·50 photos

Ille of May

An evening's travelling north out of Edinburgh and over the Forth on the way to a boat trip out to the Isle of May, the island where gannets and puffins nest and where seals come ashore to give birth. The road unwound past green hills, a wind turbine standing over the hedgerows, and the tall white pylons of the Queensferry Crossing under a bright blue sky. Signs ticked off the miles into Fife — Leven, Methil, Buckhaven — with distillery and whisky walls passing by along the way. Six hours of moving light, signposts and sea air.

Sightseeing·9:00 AM – 12:00 PM·99 photos

Crail and St. Andrews

Visiting Crail and the Royal Borough of St. Andrews. Did not go to see the golf course. We saw the remains of the cathedral and castle.

Sightseeing·9:00 AM – 12:00 PM·12 photos

Edinburgh Day 1

Sir Walter Scott memorial and the Royal Mile

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Kelpies

Tantallon Castle

Ille of May

Crail and St. Andrews

Edinburgh Day 1