On my recent coach trip to Pitlochry my fellow passengers and I had a day out in Stirling. the last time I was there was in 1968 when my late Scottish wife and I were ‘courting’ and had a day out there.
I could not remember much of it from then but spent most of my time there in Stirling Castle. I bought the audio guide which was downloaded via a QR Code to my mobile phone. The commentary was excellent and I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the castle.
On my recent coach trip to Pitlochry the other passengers and I had a day out in Perth in the morning and Dundee in the afternoon. I visited Discovery Point in Dundee, where the ship RSS Discovery is moored. I visited the Discovery Point museum exploring all 11 galleries, and 9 audio-visual film shows with…
On my first day I drove to Queen’s View, which I had seen in autumn before. The weather was lovely as can be seen from the photo. Loch Tummel and beyond Loch Rannoch can be seen in the view. I drove along the northern shores of Loch Tummel and Loch Rannoch to Rannoch Station which…
I went on a Cairngorm Travel coach holiday based in the Duke of Gordon hotel, Kingussie with Leyland u3a. There were thirty-seven of members on the Kingussie holiday so the coach was allocated just to our group. For both outward and return journeys we stopped at Moffat for lunch with an additional stop at the…
In the morning of my third day in Slovenia Vlado drove us to Ptuj. This is the the view over Ptuj from the castle. The traditional Ptuj carnival features n=many strange and surreal costumes, some of which are pictured next to me. We then drove to Pristava near the border with Croatia where we where…
On our third day we went to Castletown and the Southern 100 motorcycle race – a lesser race than the Isle of Man TT but nevertheless very exciting. At the time we were there was an accident (with no serious injuries) which meant the final lap was abandoned. As it was on a coach tour…