Fort Augustus Travel Blogs

These are some of my faviorite pics from our 31 day trip to Scotland from April - May 2005. If you want a break down of what we saw check out Euphemy's blog she summarized the whole trip.

Day one of our tour to the Scottish Highlands.  Our first tour guide drove us all nearly insane within an hour.  He had extremely irritating speech habits, to say the least, and managed to make an Scottish accent sound like a pirate.  Our tour was with the Haggis company, a…

The next morning we had a FANTASTIC breakfast with grilled mushrooms, tomatoes, scrammbled eggs, jam, toast ect. ect. . Before leaving we asked Heather (she runs this place - actualy it's her private house and she has 3 rooms in the basement to let) if it's possible to stay one mire night. Of c…

It was time to take a trip up north through the Highlands after saying my goodbyes  to all my family :(From just outside Glasgow it took about 8 hours to get to Fort Augustus, haha. Along the way i stopped off at many Loch's and a whole different variety of sightseeing attractions to take some…

We travelled from Glasgow - Fort Augustus - Fort William - Loch Ness - Loch Lomond - Isle of Skye -Glen Finnan

A bus tour through the most amazing places in Scotland and the Lake District

On the 31st of May, after Ullapool we headed to the battle site of Culloden where the Scots had their last stand against the English. Many Scots were killed including their children and wifes who were to the side of the battle. There were mass graves of clans that are burried uder a single gra…

In our way to Inverness we stopped in Caledonian Canal, that connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William. It runs some 62 miles (100 kilometres) from northeast to southwest. Only one third of the entire length is man-made, the rest being form…