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Steamer Kelpies

Tuesday 6th August 2019

The forecast for today was for it to be wet with showers all day, however we woke up to a bright sunny sky. On the suggestion of the lady we are renting the cottage from we went to visit Aridsaig and more specifically the Steamer Terminal. At the moment the Steam Terminal has a copy of the Kelpies in miniature on display, having seen the originals on our last Scottish holiday we wanted to see these too. There is a miniature model person on the base to show the scale compared to the originals.

Me with the mini Kelpie
Gavin with one of the mini Kelpies

The Steamer Terminal has a very nice cafe so we also had our lunch here and watched the crane unloading the logs off lorries in the harbour at the same time.

Bacon roll and chips, was so good
It only seemed to take a few minutes for this crane to unload a whole lorry full of logs.

After lunch we went for a walk in Aridsaig and saw the lighthouse and lots of small boats.

Aridsaig Lighthouse
Aridsaig

We headed back to the cottage then as it was starting to come over dark, and about 3pm the rain that was predicted to be with us all day arrived.

Cottage view of the heavy rain

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Wheel Horses

Monday 8th October – distance travelled 224 miles

We started the day with a great breakfast with a great view.  It was such a lovely hotel and room we were sad to be leaving after just one night.

Gavin did the first leg of the drive which was to Falkirk to see the Falkirk Wheel, the weather was unsurprisingly wet and grey so decided we didn’t want to go on the wheel just watch it go round.

Falkirk Wheel

Me at the Falkirk Wheel

Afterwards I picked up a toy highland cow and a highland cow puzzle book for Charlotte as her gift for looking after the hedgehogs and squirrels while we were away.  Then we headed to a lovely restaurant just up the road for dinner.

Presents for Charlotte

After dinner we visited the Kelpies which are very big and sparkly and well worth a visit.

Me at the Kelpies

Gavin at the Kelpies

Kelpies

I took over the driving and we started to head south as the weather started to get even worse and there were yellow alerts being issued around Glasgow and south for high winds.  I stopped after about 40 miles to switch from contact lenses to glasses  Gavin saw I was struggling and took back over the driving all the way to Windermere.  He did a great job in very tricky, wet and windy conditions.

We found our cottage for the next few nights and unloaded the car once again, this time we both have a double room 🙂

Our home for the next few nights