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Pub crawl

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Traditional Irish music played at a pub crawl a couple people in the Ireland lass went on. It was pretty spiffy! We learned all about playing the boot...

Bridge

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If you're a Harry Potter fan, this should look familiar to you...

Another loch

SailorZelda — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:33:48 MST

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I think it's pretty

Glencoe

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According to Alan our crazy tour guide, this is some of the best scenery in Scotland.

A "wee walk" in Glencoe

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More Glencoe

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It was fairly awesome.

Glencoe deux

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All the "baby" mountains ever.

River city

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There's trouble in- I mean, this was a town we came across, where Alan the tour guide wanted to show us how pretty and tranquil it was.

HAMISH!!!!

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He's a hairy coo and he's awesome.

Coooooo...

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Monty Python castle

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In Scotland! I think I was the only one in my Haggis group who was actually excited about this castle... as you can see... XD

Doune Castle

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It's a pretty nice castle, actually... Hehe Monty Python.

William Wallace monument

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Rather fine, on the top of a RIDICULOUS hill.

Edinburgh Castle

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It's a smallish city and this site pretty much dominates it. It's awesome.

Edinburgh morning

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Edinburgh--high street

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Lots of shops and Celtic music playing everywhere.

Ness in Edinburgh

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Fancy tweed stuff for girls.

Scottish Whisky

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As you probably saw before, we went to a brewery, which was fun... It was neat to see all the types they sold.

Edinburgh Castle, close up

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At the top of the Royal Mile, a.k.a. High Street.

A thistle!

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On the walk down from Edinburgh Castle. This is actually the emblem of Scotland.

Blarney Castle!

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Back in Ireland, now. The first impressive view of the castle.

Blarney, foundations

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There are caves and stuff under there! I was the only tourist there who seemed interested in exploring them.

Blarney, watchtower

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The cool thing about Castles being in ruins is that you kinda get to see how they're constructed--the holes in the stone, etc.

Blarney, skeleton interior

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Kissing the Blarney stone!

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I was way amused at the whole setup.

Blarney Stone

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Blarney roof walk thing

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Blarney Caves

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They were pretty cool! Apparently they used to hide stuff down here...

Blarney, stone

SailorZelda — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:17:59 MST

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The castle was actually built on top of the rock cliff thing from which the rocks were quarried.

Blarney garden surroundings

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Blarney castle, grounds setup

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The rock enclosure thing

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Faultline valley thing in Scotland

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Scottish faultlines

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Just... pretty

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Haggis guide Alan and a magical river

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He's crazy

Magical rivers!

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If you stick your face in for seven seconds, Elfin, king of the faeries, will make sure you are beautiful forever!!

BEST BAKERY EVAR!!!

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:08:40 MST

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On the Isle of Skye. They had a steak pie I would probably kill for.

Cliffs and seas and such

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:08:15 MST

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Scotland was just so pretty, the pictures don't even do it justice.

Isle of Skye cauldera again

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:07:48 MST

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I don't know how many pictures of this ridiculousness I got...

Isle of Skye Cauldera

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:07:17 MST

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Isle of Sky AWESOMENESS

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:06:40 MST

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Does this look familiar? That's probably because it was in STARDUST. ^__^

Kilt Rock

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:05:56 MST

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On the Isle of Skye. Also, this water was a really weird green color...

The faerie falls!!

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:05:26 MST

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If you can take a drink and climb all the way back down the hill, without swallowing, you get a wish!

Isle of Sky landscape

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:04:57 MST

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Those rocks in the distance are apparently old people trapped by the faeries. Don't ever tell anyone your faerie wish, is the moral... XD

Iconic view of Eisle Donan

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:04:32 MST

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Donan

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Eisle Donan

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Scotland's most famous castle. It was actually only finished in 1902... that's an interesting story.

Lochs

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:02:56 MST

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Glen nevis again

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:02:29 MST

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We stopped here to climb up a mound, like the one you see... Those are all totally natural, which seems weird to me. *coughFAERIEScough*

Glen Nevis again

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:01:53 MST

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Beautiful rolling mountain things

Glen Nevis

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:01:21 MST

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Where the first 3 minutes of Braveheart was filmed. The rest was filmed in Ireland because according to Alan, "Westminster" wanted too much money in taxes.

Fort William

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:00:56 MST

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Little town/city... actually, probably the biggest one in the highlands we were actually in

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Andi in Neverland

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Neverland is in Scotland, didn't you know?

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This is Emma breaking the Scottish rules

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She's from Australia. She's funny. :D

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Scottish hilly things

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With low clouds. Those were everywhere.

Snowman!

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:44:01 MST

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This was the first place we visited in Scotland with Haggis.

A postcard of a Scottish forest.

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:42:44 MST

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This is actually a photo... but I think it looks too perfect. It's ridiculous.

Viewpoint in the Scottish woodlands

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Green Scottish countryside

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Most snow ever!

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:40:24 MST

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It literally when from that green picture that's next to this one within 20 minutes. Weird.

On the way to the highlands

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Bonnie Prince Charlie's fortress

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:39:32 MST

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This is pretty much where they made a last stand again the English and had to run for it.

Loch, loch, lochity loch

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Some loch

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:38:31 MST

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I don't remember which, but it's so pretty and clear! This was Haggis tour, day 1

Mountains!

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:37:57 MST

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Scotland scenery is the best...

Another loch

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If you said "lake," they made fun of you.

Lighting over the loch

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:36:59 MST

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This is the pretty kind of lighting we got to deal with every day. :)

Highlander show thing

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:36:24 MST

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This is where we saw it.

Kilts!

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At the Clansman's Lodge. The show we saw there, about what they wore and ate and how they lived, was really cool.

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Andi in highlander garb

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The bigger the bum...

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:33:46 MST

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....the more beautiful the lady! I'm not making that up, the clansman said so... XD

Traditional highland garb!

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:32:59 MST

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Sekmet

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:27:00 MST

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British Museum. I really like these statues of her, and they had like... 100 of them.

Egyptian statue with paint

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:21:27 MST

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British Museum. This is also probably 4,000 years old. It's awesome!!

Egyptian statues

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 07:51:19 MST

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British Museum, mother and child. I love it!!

Rosetta stone!

SailorZelda — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 07:49:21 MST

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I so didn't know the British museum had this. The English stole the best stuff from ALL around the world!

Rosetta stone close-up

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The hieroglyphs and the Coptic script

Egyptian musicians

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British museum