A curious mind

After a night of problem sleeping for both T and me, we jumped out of bed at the crack of 10 and headed out.

We went to the train station first to get out tickets to Edinburgh (T will struggle with this name until the day we leave) and our return to Glasgow.

We had breakfast at Alness. It used to be a Safeway but it's been changed to something else with a bit of a diner on the side. (In other words "greasy spoon").

We headed north to Dornoch to see the Royal Dornoch golf course. They've been wanting "the open" here for a few years. Very nice. I may have to go shag some balls there and see if they make a different noise when they slap off the roof (ruf, as they say here) of the clubhouse. We stopped for some pictures at Dornuck beach. Quite windy and a rainstorm out of no-where.

From there we went to the church where Madonna was married. At the side of the church there was a grave yard dating back to 1800's. We found a stone in the ground with two pins that at one time were used to measure fabric at markets.

Then we wound our way up to Dunrobin castle. VERY excellent. It was funny, first we wander around this castle with all sorts of crap going back to the early 1800s. THEN we go down to the garden where they have a museum for the "older" stuff.

One of the flowers in the garden was "fuscia"... got a picture or 2 of that.

Saw some seals on the way back. Can't swing a dead cat over here without hitting a sheep. They're like rats. Oh, and one field had so many rabbits in it... had to be hundreds.

Ended the day back at R & Js for pasta and red wine. yee-har.