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a report about our travel in one of my favorite countries

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              Schotland!!!

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         We went with the ferry from Ijmuiden to New Castle ,and from there with the car from Edinburgh to toPerthshire, 

             Tummel valley,  9 years ago we where there as well ,on the same  camping ,at that time it didn't belongs

 

 

          to Park Dean, 

             personally, i liked it better 9 years ago,

              it was personal 

              near the camping is Queens view end the 80ies i made an oilpainting                      Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

                                                                                                                

              out a travel brochure, i didn't know that i was 10 years later on the same place              

                             really funny 

                                       


 

                  I love to take pics but one of my favorite moments are photograph the rainbow, but when that rainbow is in a scottisch landscape that's just brilliant    Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

      one day we where in Aberfeldy and there we deside to go rafting      6 daredevils  with theire leader, went down the river Tay, this sport named  White water rafting, we enjoy it very much, it was a nice day

      but it wasn't very sheap

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after all the water spectacle,a little van was taking us back to the parkingplace,it was all take 2,5 hour,with more and less flow

             

     all i can say if you near Aberfeldy visit

                        Freespirits for more information

     next to rafting you can also cliff jumping,canyoning,abseiling and

                          mountain bike hire.

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     near Rothiemurchus is a trout farm, there you also can fishPhoto Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket  it's a good idea to go fish by a trout farm because the fishing license  is very expensive             ,i personally enjoy more the vieuw

      Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket In Embro, or 2nd camping,(Grannie's Heilan Hame)  is a great place

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            it's by the beach, where you can walk and let the kite fly        it was just like we where alone on the beach and that is what i like    and than the vieuw...just amazingPhoto Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket  Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

 

         special in the evening we made huge beach walking, it's a pity that we stay there just 3 days,

we made there friends with the crows and the sea gulls

          i also like the clouds there, there had a special shape,i took some pics from very special clouds (ps) if you can't find photo's i am talking about chekc out the slide shows)

       and than we met this guys      seals..amazing just lying there on a sandbank..Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket  Near the Loch Fleet, 

              is where the sandbanks are, you can see it also from the streets, but please don't disturb those amazing animals,just watch, and leave them alone,like we did            

      a lot of people like to visit old yet in good hold castles, but i love to go to the ruins,with a lot of history???and the older the better...i feel happy,that's my lifePhoto Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

like that...an old residance tower, prehistoric..just wow..i wish that tower could talk, so many stories you could hear

it's the residence tower from ben Hope ,and yes more of that kind of ruins you will find all over the country

I have something with the celtic culture, you always will find in my galeries, Celtic  crosses and stones,  I love to go once to Orkney Islands with all his history Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

 

on our way to our 3th stay (melldalloch lodges, it's be manage by Dutch people) we went to the highst mountain from Scotland, the ben Nevis.

our 3th stay was very special, it was like we wjere in canada,it was isolated and we lived in the middel of nowhere.just nature YESSS

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wooden houses with balkony, in the morning you hear the deers coming, little birds are waiting fr you to bring them food, and foxes who watch you from far..just great

here you have nature water, a little brown, but it can't harm you, if you deside still to rink clear water you have to go to a supermarket and buy bottles water,the nearest supermarket is in Dunoon.

a little supermarket..a very little one you will find in Kames

                                                     

ow yeh, and I wanna let you know, we where very very lucky with the weather, like 9 years ago,

 

      LOCH NESS

 first visitors of Scotland wanna see LOCH NESS, yeh it's worth it,   and urquhart castle (what's left of it) they say Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

there is a secret entry,it's still there, and if you will find those entry you will find NESSIE..yeh sure i found it

  Ofcourse, i found a graveyeard and a very old one,it was a myserious something to photograph,special with a gothic lady Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

DUNOON

and if you still in Dunoon, you have to go to Cowal bird garden      next to birds,like our friends Max and Jasper here,you find guinea pigs( i have guinea pigs my self)Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

 

   and even a white deer..             

  ISLE OF BUTE

 ST BLANE CHAPEL.. it was in the 6th century an celtic settlement

some graves and rest of buildings are still find there from that tme

it be destroid in the 8th century by the vikings,Scottish and Vikings fight many ages on that island

it even belongs to the vikings till1266 

than it belongs back to the Scottisch people

 this chapel is from the 12th century

 

 

   our last day.....HADRIANS WALL Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at PhotobucketPhoto Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

                                                                

         

  we traveld 12 days trough a land full with fantasy and colours

 

 full with dreams,a land with his soft climate and mountains,

 we travel in the footsep of the Celts

     the highlanders,trough a country with his beautyfull sunset,where  game around you is very normal here

 

  a country with beautyfull lakes,lochs and mystery, we travel trough .....SCOTLAND  

           Bernie'05

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