Lessons On The Isle Of Skye

Updated on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 12:56AM by Bob & Brenna Redpath

Here's what we've learned: When traveling in Scotland, every chance you get - book a room in a pub. The pub should have a fireplace if possible. If they serve a good fish & chips or beef & ale pie, all the better. In Portree, Isle Of Skye, we spent a couple of nights in a cozy little pub with rooms above, and we met a group of very funny guys from Norway and Scotland around the fire. We've got a plan to hook up in Glasgow with our new friend, Billy, for the Celtic Connection music festival in January.

And: When you're hiking the Quiraing, and you think you've found a secluded place to

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Can't Blog Long, I'm Driving

We were on the lookout for the Loch Ness monster all afternoon today -- so far no "Nessy"...

We're driving around Inverness heading to tonight's B&B, near Loch Ness, only a little lost right now. Thank God for onboard navigation and cell phones and laptops and mobile wireless connections... Who needs a map? Gotta go -- we're heading out of Inverness now and losing our mobile wireless.

Heading to the Highlands -- Again

Tomorrow we'll pile into the not-so-mini-van and hit the highway. This time it's the Isle of Skye or bust -- hopefully it'll be the Isle of Skye. After two nights there, we'll head to Loch Ness and Culloden for two more nights. We can't wait. We'll post pics.

Life In Close Quarters

This morning I was cleaning the kitchen, and Bob was keeping me company, reading aloud an essay by a travel writer named Rolf Potts. The story, Something Approaching Enlightenment, is about his travels to the Himalayan village of Kaza. He went to visit the Buddhist monasteries there during the

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Bagpiper at Blair Castle

Bob records the piper. We couldn't find our windscreen, so that's one of my socks on the recorder.

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