Jeff to all of us in a car in London, " Why are you not getting out of the car!"
Lady in Castle Combe in English accent "Worst coffee I ever had, and 1 pound 20."
Chris Smith in his english accent " Stacie do you want to go over there and have a proper sit." and "The girl over there is a chain smoker, she's smoked three fags since we've been here."
Jeff to Cindy, "Even if I don't want to."
Stacie to Jake at breakfast, "Jake you don't even like grapefruit." Jake," I know, I didn't know what it was."
Cindy, Where's the map?"
Jeff, "Where's Cindy? Where did that woman go?"
Tube announcer, "Mind the Gap"
Owner of B&B owner, "The girl was really cheesed off."
Conversation at York cafe, Jake, "That fruit bowl was delightful, it didn't have any pineapple in it." Stacie, "It didn't have pineapple in it. It had grapefruit." Jake,"Pineapple is only good on the bbq with brown sugar on it." Jeff "I've never had that." Cindy, " Yes you have, you made it the other day."
Jeff, "All the missionaries got fat on fudge doughnuts." Jake." I wish I could find a fudge doughnut."
A man in a Scotland fish and chippie," what the hell you want a fudge doughnut for?"
Lady at the sketchy B&B in Scotland, "Yeah, right, don't follow the sat map."
Jake to Jeff about after finally finding fudge dougnuts and wanting 8 of them, "I like how you think!"

Circus?

If my memory serves me correctly - which it seems to do in an inconsistent manner - this place was called The Circus. I big circular plaza in Bath. It was just really cool architecture and we enjoyed that about it. We spent a bit of time in the Plaza relaxing before dinner at a Cafe nearby, ironically called The Circus Cafe. It was very good food, and a charming setting on the walk of a narrow cobblestone street in Bath. We had some delightful sea bass.






Actually come to think of it, that was not called "The Circus" I think this one was, as it was a complete circle. But I could be wrong about all of this.

Glen Coe

Glen Coe was pretty cool, as you can tell from the photos. We drove through on our way to another place and just had time to stop and snap a couple of pics. I'd like to go back one day and climb one of these mountains to soak in the view. It was such a beautiful place.

Allergies

i had a horrible allergic reaction just after we left the town of Bath. We had to stop the car and find some tissues because it was out of control for a second there.

The Ferry

It was just a simple ferry ride out to the Isle of Skye, but there was just something about being out on the deck of the boat with the breezy morning air sipping a cocoa and enjoying the views of the Scottish coastline and Isle of Skye hillside on the shore. Jeff forgot to include a Ferry as a mode of transportation in his itinerary. We were all a little upset about that.

Stacie was a bit cold so she stayed in the cabin most of the ride. She had a pretty lousy night being pregnant and trying to sleep in our B&B we stayed at that night. We took a chance on a place that didn't have as great of reviews because it was located right on the shore. We thought it would be neat to be located right on the shore. The views from the place were great, but the linens and beds were less than desirable. The person staying in the room next door must have gotten plastered at a pub because we could hear her vomiting all night. And after Cindy took a shower in the moldy bathroom, the rest of us just decided we'd clean up in the sink and take a long shower the next day. Which we did.

Castle Combe

Castle Combe was one of the highlights of our trip. Somehow Jeff and Cindy knew of this little village on the way back from Bath. So we turned onto a quaint little windy, tree lined road called "The Street" and ended up here. We just walked around the quiet antique village and took some pics and enjoyed a slice of banana bread by the banks of this little river shown in a picture here. It was such a cozy little town and very relaxing to sit there on the bench along the banks and soak in the sun.

This was in the front of a little church there in Castle Combe where (obviously) they had some grave sites for various influential people from centuries ago. This whole town was just really cool. I had a hard time narrowing down which pictures to include.

Stacie dropping a post card in the mail for the kids.

And the bread store in Castle Combe. We dropped a few pounds in the slot in the door and had a nice mid morning snack. The old buildings here were so neat and so old. It was neat to see a whole village like this preserved. If you're ever in the neighborhood, some of the cottages are avaiable to rent for a weekend getaway.

Highland Coo

As soon as we got to Scotland we started looking for a highland Cow because Jeff desperately wanted a picture of one. It wasn't until we were in the farthest outstreches of the Isle of Sky that we finally came across a small herd. Cindy and I jumped out of the car and took a few pics as the passers by stared in wonderment - you would have thought we'd never seen a cow before.

Ironically Cindy really wanted to get a picture of an Oreo cow - one that is black on the head and rump and white in bewteen. Finally on a random narrow road winding between some small rock farm houses Cindy spotted one and made Jeff pull over. Jeff was bound and determined to be at our next destination at a certain time and somewhat perturbed that we had to stop. But, being a gent that he is pulled over and we snapped this pic.