Scotland - Second Day
People, we do like Scotland! It is still a mystery why I did not enjoy that much of the Scotland yesterday, probably because of the tiredness. Today we had a great day.
We started from walking in the Inverness. Inver means Mouth and Ness is the name of the river the city lies on, which makes it The Mouth of the Ness. The city is not big but beautiful. Everything is close by foot so we did not use the car here. One of the most amazing places we visited here is the Kilt visitors centre. Kilt is the traditional skirt wearied by men. Apparently kilts developed quite straight forward from the robe style clothes. (How is the white clothes wearied by Romans called ?) The tradition tells that men wear nothing under the skirt, but as our photographer has spotted, they do wear underwear! The other interesting thing is that is takes 7 meters of material for a skirt. We have tried wearing it and it is heavy indeed! The price range is about 60pounds for the kilt and 500 for the whole wear.
The second half of the day we spend watching the Highland Games. This is traditional Scottish festival which has a flavor dance, bagpipe music and ofcourse games which involve force. We saw the stone throwing competition, the weight throwing competition and the hammer throwing competition. After the games there was a nice clan playing the traditional music and a group of girls dancing.
The last part of the day was full of hunting. Poor Nessy hide under the surface or between the bushes so we did not see it at all. Yes indeed, we finally visited Loch Ness Lake ! The story about the monster is so famous that somehow even I heard about it. Through the day I wondered where did I hear about it first. After spending the day on the lake we still puzzled and speculating about the monster. The lake seems to be a bit small from the outside but apparently it is quite deep and one of the biggest lakes with fresh water in the world. The fact that nobody took a proper picture of the monster does not mean that it can not exist. Actually we spent quite a lot of time trying to find a place to get close to the water and we hardly found one! The conclusion is that poor Nessy can hide almost anywhere.
During the trip around the lake we came across a castle. Unfortunately it was closed. Spending little time on hesitating we jumped over the fence and walked quietly and freely to the castle. The agreement was that if we get caught, then Dimi will speak French and we pretend stupid tourists. Luckily us, nobody was around and judge the pictures to see how much fun we had !
Just to recap, we are staying at the Inverness Student Hostel.
BY THE WAY, DIMI DID SEE NESSY !!!!!! THE PROOF IS HERE :
We started from walking in the Inverness. Inver means Mouth and Ness is the name of the river the city lies on, which makes it The Mouth of the Ness. The city is not big but beautiful. Everything is close by foot so we did not use the car here. One of the most amazing places we visited here is the Kilt visitors centre. Kilt is the traditional skirt wearied by men. Apparently kilts developed quite straight forward from the robe style clothes. (How is the white clothes wearied by Romans called ?) The tradition tells that men wear nothing under the skirt, but as our photographer has spotted, they do wear underwear! The other interesting thing is that is takes 7 meters of material for a skirt. We have tried wearing it and it is heavy indeed! The price range is about 60pounds for the kilt and 500 for the whole wear.
The second half of the day we spend watching the Highland Games. This is traditional Scottish festival which has a flavor dance, bagpipe music and ofcourse games which involve force. We saw the stone throwing competition, the weight throwing competition and the hammer throwing competition. After the games there was a nice clan playing the traditional music and a group of girls dancing.
The last part of the day was full of hunting. Poor Nessy hide under the surface or between the bushes so we did not see it at all. Yes indeed, we finally visited Loch Ness Lake ! The story about the monster is so famous that somehow even I heard about it. Through the day I wondered where did I hear about it first. After spending the day on the lake we still puzzled and speculating about the monster. The lake seems to be a bit small from the outside but apparently it is quite deep and one of the biggest lakes with fresh water in the world. The fact that nobody took a proper picture of the monster does not mean that it can not exist. Actually we spent quite a lot of time trying to find a place to get close to the water and we hardly found one! The conclusion is that poor Nessy can hide almost anywhere.
During the trip around the lake we came across a castle. Unfortunately it was closed. Spending little time on hesitating we jumped over the fence and walked quietly and freely to the castle. The agreement was that if we get caught, then Dimi will speak French and we pretend stupid tourists. Luckily us, nobody was around and judge the pictures to see how much fun we had !
Just to recap, we are staying at the Inverness Student Hostel.
BY THE WAY, DIMI DID SEE NESSY !!!!!! THE PROOF IS HERE :
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