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Oh yes - there's Northern Ireland!
Your Highland coo photos are excellent, you should frame one of them! How cute that they stopped and posed for you.
This is a very quaint and cute little village indeed. Your room views are beautiful!
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Absolutely perfect pic of the coo. Loved the framing of the ferns it was standing in. I too would recommend framing that one or turning it into a canvas (looks so good on a wall and so reasonably priced now).
All of this beautiful scenery is just making me push Scotland closer to the top of my bucket list. Thanks for the further inspiration to get off my butt and jump the pond.
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All of this beautiful scenery is just making me push Scotland closer to the top of my bucket list. Thanks for the further inspiration to get off my butt and jump the pond.
It is absolutely stunning and I must admit I feel very fortunate to live so close to it - well, relatively anyway. At least we can pop up there for a weekend (off to the Royal Military Tattoo in Edinburgh at the end of this month) or a week. I know we'll be going back, as there's just so much beautiful scenery to see there.
Wednesday 14 June – part nine: just watching the view…
We had a couple of hours downtime, and during that time, my goodness, the scenery changed all the time, with the sun and clouds moving across the sky. It’s amazing the difference that makes.
There was also some activity out in the harbour…
I personally loved just people watching. It’s patently a very close community here, as you could see locals sitting outside chatting away. Sadly, that’s something we’re losing in a lot of places here.
Mark and I headed down for dinner just before 7:00pm, and took our table, and started to browse the menu. It was a lovely place…
We started to get a bit concerned about Mari and Raleigh a few minutes later, and Mark thought that he’d seen someone poke their head in, and went to investigate. He was right – it was Mari, who in her words, “didn’t poke my head in far enough!”
… and then we settled down to have a look at the menu. Mari asked for a dirty martini cocktail, but it didn’t work out well. I am no expert on these, but Mari and Raleigh both agreed it wasn’t drinkable. She wasn’t going to say anything, but we both told her she should, otherwise people would never learn. In the end, she did, and the woman acknowledged it was probably down to the olives, as they only had them in oil, and that had probably changed the taste. She agreed immediately to take it off the check, and this was the start of a pretty beautiful friendship throughout the meal.
We all decided not to go for appetisers, but we did get the bread service, and frankly that was almost an appetiser in itself! The balsamic vinegar dip was superb, and Mari ended up asking for some more. Well, her new friend got her pretty enough to swim in… and for no extra charge! She also bought out olives and seconds of those, again as compensation for the dirty martini problems. Good for her – she certainly turned the whole situation around very well.
They had even more problems, when they had to return to the table to say that they had no more lamb shanks until the morning, which is what Mark had ordered, but he went for the supreme of chicken fillet with wild mushrooms and leek, fondant potatoes, green beans, and mushroom veloute. It certainly looked very impressive when it arrived.
Mari and I went for the seafood linguine with west coast mussels, king prawns, smoked salmon and dill cream sauce. We both loved it, although Mari definitely had way more prawns than me. I had a paltry total of one, while she had about three or four left by the end of the meal, so I ended up pinching a couple of hers. I must admit I think they subbed out the smoked salmon for scallops, which wasn’t a problem, as I didn’t find any smoked salmon in mine. Mark said it stank of garlic, but I couldn’t smell it. Oh well, I won’t be on the receiving end…
What a difference that sunshine makes indeed! The scenery is beautiful anyway, but that sun shines on it and the colors change. Very cool!
Your drink looks dreamy. Yum! After the mix up with Mari's drink, dinner was sure going well.... your teaser doesn't sound so good though!
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There's nothing I may love more than a good bread service. The balsamic and oil looks like just my thing. Too bad bread is something I'm supposed to avoid .
Glad they didn't charge for a drink Meri couldn't consume! And glad she did end up saying something. Your drink looks perfect!
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