David's mother, father, and sister Carrie came to visit us in Scotland.
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We pick them up at the airport |
David checks the map to see where to take them |
David and his Dad pack bags into the car |
We go to Victoria Street where... |
They've rented a flat for the week |
In Anstruther we all eat fish and chips! |
We visit little shops |
Watch sea birds |
And see the house we used to rent which is now for sale |
David's family takes a look at our old view |
The view of the harbour |
We watch a lobsterman bring in his boat |
In St Andrews we visit West Sands |
And see fulmars perching on the cliffs |
And the Old Course |
Anne at the famous bridge on the Old Course |
Carrie at the bridge |
In Ceres we go to Wemyss Pottery |
Where you can watch them paint their famous cats |
We visit Blair House in the Highlands (no photos allowed inside) |
In the parking lot a Black-Headed Gull sits on a car |
Carrie takes a photo of a peacock |
The peacock |
David acts like a peacock |
Dad Stokes is interested in the peacock too |
An older peacock is displaying |
Near some rabbits |
A cute peahen comes to see me |
And convinces me to give her some nuts |
The creek by Blair House |
Another picture of Blair |
We visit Queen's View overlooking Loch Tummel |
David and Anne at Queen's View |
The Highland town of Pitlochre |
Where we have some icecream |
We stop for Carrie to take a photo |
Of a Hari Cow |
A Hari Cow and calf |
We visit Edinburgh Castle |
Where the guards march around |
The 12th Century St Margaret's Chapel is the oldest part of the Castle |
Inside the Chapel |
Elsewhere in the Castle we go down stairs to... |
The prisons which kept American Revolutionaries, among others |
Graffitti by prisoners is carved into the doors |
Here is an American flag |
A model ship made by the prisoners |
Afterwards we eat at a nearby pub |
From whose window you can see the flat (red door)! |