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Turning |
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On a boat on the Falkirk Wheel |
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Tunnel |
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Trip back down |
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Another boat on the wheel |
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Soroptimists sign |
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AEndr has a rest |
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Edinburgh-Glasgow train (or vice versa) on line which goes over that tunnel |
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Ganesh and Seamus on the Antonine Wall |
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Yes, our car is still in the car park (the green one) |
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Ganesh on a wall |
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The sheep are scared of Ganesh, it's not like he's Welsh! |
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We're staying next to a power station too! |
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Castle Stalker |
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This is a series of locks, one leading into the other |
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There's a road and a railway at the bottom, bridging over the canal |
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We were lucky enough to watch a transit down |
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The bridges at the bottom are swing bridges |
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We played with camera settings |
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AEndr gets a go on the footplate |
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A break at Glenfinnan station |
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The viaduct at Glenfinnan |
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And Mallaig station |
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The locomotive does a run around |
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Us on the viaduct |
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Finally, a decent window reflection shot |
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Ardnamurchan point is the most westerly point of mainland Britain, further west than Land's End. It has a lighthouse. |
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The actual westernmost bit is a bit harder to get to - and we didn't have time to walk to it. |
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Unfortunately, on these very narrow single track roads, going off road to pass another car isn't always a good idea |
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And the view from where we stopped... |
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Without signal where we stopped, we ended up stopping somewhere else with a nice view to phone to find a garage. |
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Waiting in the queue at the ferry terminal |
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And when we spotted another classic train at Kyle of Lochalsh, we stopped to take a peek |
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Skye Bridge |
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And we arrive at Lochcarron, where we finally find a garage with a replacement tyre (ours was irreparable) |
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From Lochcarron we drove across the Bealach na Ba on the Applecross Peninsula. This is a windy tortuous route, single track, passing places, hair pin bends. We were glad of the new tyre. Most photos are taken from the car window while on the move. |
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A warning notice |
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And we stop at Applecross for a breather |
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On the way back, we stop at the lookout which is the highest point. Ganesh takes a GPS marker. |
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It's a bit misty for the view to be that good |
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And then we drive to Inverness on much wider roads (relatively) |
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Keep your eyes peeled for a monster! |
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We have an obligatory boat trip |
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Urquhart Castle |
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Not sure why Ganesh photographed my teeth |
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Apparently he was trying to get a picture of himself in my glasses |
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A working trebuchet |
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Aha, Ganesh up the tower! |
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An interesting accident with the wrong camera settings and a moving object |
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This was what was meant to be got |
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This white cat likes to sit under warm car engines and rub against them |
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Having been petted, she wanted in the bedroom |
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Seamus likes the four poster bed |
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Nenthead Mines, mineshaft |
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