Europe 2023

My favorite dog breed, Border Collies are in good supply in Scotland. This guy offered to take of photo of me and his mutt. Great fun!

I came across these guys along the coastal route

Interesting looking rock formation

I came across this gentleman outside the supermarket. I guess he dressed this way daily. He was a retired doctor. My uncle Mark was embarrassed I asked for a photo

Of course, it wasnt cheap. I guess the price of hops has jacked up IPA beer all over. I found this one in St Andrews

What a generous gesture! After the three of us sat down to a store bought hockey puck Banoffee cake the previous evening, Alasdair baked us a proper cake the next day. Outstanding in every way.

Rona and I drove up to these mountains that Mark referred to them as "breasts". Anyhow, we kind of hiked them. It was more like I bee lined it downhill to the cafe in a village at the base. Rona met me there

The weather looks nastier than it was

Great weather for trekking April, May, June

Here is the famous beach (in St Andrews) the opening scene to Chariots of Fire was filmed, 

Amazing that the waters of the coast havent been fished out! 

The first day in St Andrews, I am walking from Mark's place to downtown. I needed to get a US to UK adaptor. So I ask a local Scotsman direction. What I heard him say is "Do you know where the 'beer 80" is? Like, maybe that was a name of a pub? I was later to learn he was saying 'the Byre Theater"! Things improved a bit from there, except for the Gaelic of course.

Mark loves this stuff, especially having been a Scottish herald etc.

Going to visit Uncle Mark. It had been almost 10years! I got on Ryan Air, an experience in itself. The ticket is cheap. But they gouge out of you the difference such as paying xtra to have luggage, to have an assigned seat, etc. The plastic seats were so thin, i had to take a photo.