Imagine ...

... the pope visits Scotland and nobody shows up!
In fact, there will be "some" people who'd like to see the pope, who's doing his fist visit to Scotland since 28 years. Including 90 protesters in Edinburgh :)
This leads to a lot of closed roads tomorrow.
And 4 Austrians worrying how to get to the airport in time...

"Award Winning" Scotland

When shops, pubs or stores in Scotland want to point out that something's really "special", they call it "Award Winning". There is Award Winning Whisky, Award Winning Haggis, Award Winning Pub, Beer, Kilt, ... almost everything.
I would nominate "Award Winning Weather" because it's not just a legend what you hear about the UK rain.

Since my last post we drove all the way up from Edinburgh via Sterling, Perth, Pitlochry, Inverness to Thurso and down again from Ullapool, Fort William, Tobermory, Oben to where we are now: Glasgow.

At the Isle of Mull (where Tobermory is the largest city) Anja and I did a trip to "The Arches of Carsaig" which is listed third in the Lonely Planets list of Scotlands Natural Wonders. They are giant natural arches, formed by the sea, mostly consisting of columnar basalt - very impressive! Unfortunately we had only a few minutes to explore them because we had to catch the ferry back to the main island and the time specification for the Arches trip reached from 3 hours to whole day trip...

I'd love to upload only a few pictures, but since we're at a YHA again (see comments of the previous post) that's not possible. I'll catch up on that matter on the weekend!

Next Stop: Scotland!

Aw, I always remember Simpsons' Willie saying: "Damn Scots, they ruined Scotland!" :)

Alex, Philipp, Anja and I arrived 4 days ago in Edinburgh. We spent the fist two days there, exploring Edinburgh Castle, trying 12 year aged single malt Whisky and finding out that Scots are very friendly people. We haven't tried "Haggis" yet, but actually I can't await it!
Yesterday we grabbed our hired Citroen C4 and drove via Perth to here, Pitlochry. Driving on the left side of the road and sitting on the right in the car is damn strange... like hopping on only one leg... drunk.

I'll try to upload some photos soon. Today, we were trekking along Loch somehow, where the salmons swim in spring. Accidently, we found a lot of "Eierschwammerl", so we're going to have them with eggs (and beer and whisky, of course) tonight!