Nessie not sighted but the journey is worth it!

Today we drove from Inverness (a city celebrating winning the Scottish FA Cup) south to Glasgow, which took about 5 hours.  The journey took us along the banks of the 28 mile long Loch Ness and then through some wonderful mountin areas and past other lochs.

We have had some difficulty sleeping at night.  One reason for this is adjusting to the jet lag, but things are not helped by the incredibly long hours of daylight.  Last night we were in our room reading at about 10pm and realsed the curtains were still open, and it was still very light outside.  At 4am the birds were singing outside and the daylight was quite clear by 4:30am.

These first two photos are of Urquhart Castle which sits on the edge of Loch Ness.  We went and watched an 8 minute film summarising the history which is around 1,500 years.  The second photo, if you look closely, has someone you know looking out the barred window. Unfortunately we didn't get a photo of Nessie!

We enjoyed seeing highland cattle and sheep in many paddocks along the road side,but could only get to photograph some sheep as there were few places to stop.  Even though today is the last day of Spring and tomorrow is the frst day of Summer, there is still a lot of snow on the hill tops and temperatures are pretty cool.  During the day it got to about 11 or 12 degrees today and tonight's predicted low in Glasgow is 4.  

Tomorrow I catch a train into the city centre to meet with Senior Managers in the Scottish equivalent of the Ministry of Education.  I look forward to learning much more about my subject of study.