Sunday, September 15, 2013

The drive from Inverness to Edinburgh after a fine week of riding.

This morning we leave Inverness after Don and Ian are proud to show us that they packed all of our luggage, bikes and still will be able to haul all eight us.
It had been spitting rain all morning so this dramatic shot our of our windshield shows that it is raining a bit.  (Well, not that dramatic...just a Scottish mist.)
 
Ian drove us on smaller more scenic roads so we got to see some early Roman bridges... well maybe they are newer than the period of Roman times.
 
 
An early coal fired steam tractor
 
Some of the new tractors with much higher road gears than the tractors I used to drive.
 
 
A Scottish barn with a castle turret.
 
We even took some single track roads that we again quite beautiful.
Of course, the Scottish hills were just around the corner.
Don and Lori are about to be baptized in the Spey river. Don is a fan of Spey fishing so a baptism was called for as well as a bag of sand.
We returned Allan, Ian's brother to his home in St Andrews on the way to Edinburgh and got some nice flower shots.
 
 
We arrived at the Drumsheugh Garden apartment that Ian had reserved for us in Edinburgh and we lined up a the entrance for a pic.
 
Ian's wife, Irene joined us at the apartment and after a toast to a fine week we walked to Ryan's bistro for dinner.
 
A fine dinner and celebration of a great week of riding.


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