So much has happened and not much time to post. Places and Highlights.
Edinburgh
Saw Shakespeare for Breakfast. Saw morgue and coffee_lifeform et al again at another party. I gave morgue a big hug that he is to share with everyone. See him and demand your fraction!
Beau and I also climbed up Arthur's Seat the regular way and then back down via gorse, brambles, streams and cliffs. According to the people at the party, still the regular way ;) We then went along the crags and slid down a sea of grass to Holyrood Palace. Good fun. Between the walking/scrambling and the party we also waited over an hour to eat at Monster Mash and it was worth it.
Highlands and not so high lands
After and uninspiring drive to Inverness (best bit was having to pull over into a cafe with free internet to figure out what the speed limit was) and stay at an uninspiring "BnB" we drove back down via Loch Ness, stopping at the Loch Ness Visitor Centre and Urkhardt Castle. Seriously beautiful scenery. I wish we had more time to explore Scotland. It isn't like Otago, as we had been told by morgue, NZ is much newer and so more jagged looking. The Highlands are full of these huge rolling moutains. Seriously beautiful.
We cut back east towards Edinburgh driving through Glen Coe. Totally recommend the visitor centre. Picturesque views and HIGHLAND COOS! Awesome.
We stayed with muggle's buddy GymE near Stirling and she took us to faboo pub/restaurant in the middle of nowhere for gorgeous dinner (Beau and GymE had venison steak pie things and I had pork and mash) and desserts (Beau, sticky toffee pudding, Gym E, rice pudding, me, rhubarb fool with ginger ice cream). She didn't have to work the next morning and took us round to local sites, the Stirling Castle and the William Wallace Monument. We took her word for it and didn't actually pay and go up and in either of them, but by this stage a bit castled out.
Still to come
Kirby Lonsdale and Cambridge
Point of Fashion: dishabille
Current Obsession: punting