(June 22, 2008)
Today we got up early and set out for the Lochness---just a short drive out of Inverness..... yeah...so a little on Scottish names. Loch is used for lakes, so Lochness is the Lake Ness. Inver means the "mouth of". So Inverness is the mouth of Ness.
Ness is the river in between Lochness and the city of Inverness. We drove to the remnants of Urquhart Castle. this is actually the ruin of a casltle which was blown up a few centuries ago.
We hung out for a while, and many pictures were taken. We had a really nice day with lots of sun--this was one of the rare nice-weather days I had in Inverness!
After the Castle we had lunch in a small town on the way home back to Inverness. I had a Gammon Steak--which is actually a big thing of bacon; I drank it with an Irn Bru soda.
We then decided to not go to one of Andrew´s cricket matches and instead head to the site of the
Culloden battlefield. This place had a modern, and really cool Interpretive Center. Sad to find it was a place where the Scotts (Jacobites) were creamed by the "government" (aka the Brits).
Oh, at the gift shop, I was surprised to see a "Scottish salsa" cd! The album is called Salsa Celtica--may have to download it when i get back to the states.
Today we got up early and set out for the Lochness---just a short drive out of Inverness..... yeah...so a little on Scottish names. Loch is used for lakes, so Lochness is the Lake Ness. Inver means the "mouth of". So Inverness is the mouth of Ness.
Ness is the river in between Lochness and the city of Inverness. We drove to the remnants of Urquhart Castle. this is actually the ruin of a casltle which was blown up a few centuries ago.We hung out for a while, and many pictures were taken. We had a really nice day with lots of sun--this was one of the rare nice-weather days I had in Inverness!
After the Castle we had lunch in a small town on the way home back to Inverness. I had a Gammon Steak--which is actually a big thing of bacon; I drank it with an Irn Bru soda.
We then decided to not go to one of Andrew´s cricket matches and instead head to the site of the
Culloden battlefield. This place had a modern, and really cool Interpretive Center. Sad to find it was a place where the Scotts (Jacobites) were creamed by the "government" (aka the Brits).Oh, at the gift shop, I was surprised to see a "Scottish salsa" cd! The album is called Salsa Celtica--may have to download it when i get back to the states.
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