Day 3 Aviemore biking tour to

Started today with better than expected weather. And the rainy weather we had, was short and came with a whisky shots from locals. (More on those nice Scots later).

George woke up at 3:15 because the light was shining in the window and we both wondered,when does the sun rise (maybe it never really sets in Scotland on the summer solstice). I fought through the sunlight and managed to sleep again till 830. We had more eggs and local salmon/ lox for breakfast. After bfast we wandered through town and started day three of the cycling tour around 10:30.

At this point in our trip, I needed to pee and ventured off to look at the bridge and find a nice quiet spot while George and Tim (our riding companion) went ahead.

I turned on the turbo to catch up. But Tim was waiting for me in the road and said we were taking a pit stop for the rain. Wherein the 90 year old Scottish local not only gave us shelter from the rain, but also whisky.

The rain subsided and we ventured towards kingussie for lunch stopping at the ruthven barracks and pics of more highland coos.

Day 2 biking Aviemore

Today we almost slept through bfast. The sun goes to sleep late and gets up early. You have to get it dark to sleep and if you get it dark you might just continue sleeping. We made it to bfast with 2 minutes to spare, then packed up our gear for a great bike ride. We are in the Cairngorm national park. All these pictures following are from around Aviemore.

At this point we were hungry and thirsty and the girls saved us a spot while we got showered. I had my first sticky toffee pudding.

Aviemore trek bicycle tour

Mostly a travel day, but we did get a great first rainy ride in. The train ride was about 3 hours through the Scottish Highlands. We arrived a we bit early, but grabbed a pint got some lunch and went for a beautiful ride.

After check in we got outfitted for a ride and took one. Look at this beautiful scenery (in the rain no less).

Feshie bridge

Edinburgh

Joined to with Sadira, Cora and Helena today

Deliriously jet lagged and wandering the streets of Edinburgh!

We met up with Helena at the airport. We didn’t realize that there were 2 international terminals and the anticipated reunion was even more climatic. Since our flight was delayed our fish and chips lunch happened after 2 pm.

Traipsing through the royal mile in the old town.
The castle is pretty much visible throughout the old town. Edinburg is absolutely beautiful.

We also found the beautiful park that used to be a lake until it was drained in the 1700s. Then we grabbed a beer and met up with a bridal party who apparently are going to name their first born after Cora. We recommended some absolute tunes and the mother of the bride did a wee bit of Scottish translation for us.

Drummers
Drinks all around.

Trying to upload bag pipe rock music on the street.