No Internet in the Highlands

So, no, John and I didn't go on a whisky bender and have to check ourselves into a quiet Scottish treatment center for "exhaustion," we were just in the Highlands with very sketchy phone much less internet service.

It's going to take FOREVER to catch everything up on the blog, so I think there will be more installments well past when we return! Right now we are on Islay, just having finished up a day of whisky tasting and just a tiny bit of both intentional and un-intentional exploring, i.e., getting lost.

Let me tell you, even on small country roads, driving on the wrong side of the road is no joke. Although that's not even the worst part. It's shifting with my left hand on a $#!!@**^%!! Volkswagen clutch that is the worst part. Why did I not remember that I hate Volkswagens and that all Volkswagen clutches and shifters hate me as well? Probably because I haven't driven a VW in 20 years.

Anyway, before I post just a couple of pics of the Highlands to tease you, let me give you a preview of our next installments:

- Our last day in Edinburgh (We managed to hit Edinburgh Castle, a bit of the Scottish National Gallery, and the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, all before catching to train to Inverness at 2:00 pm)

- 4 days of incredible riding through the Highlands, alongside the lochs, through forests, and up into the hills

- Highlands Inns, which honestly have some of the best food I have ever tasted

- Even more spectacular scenery on the train route from Spean Bridge to Glasgow

- Islay, which for some bizarre but spectacular reason has decided to be 70 degrees and gorgeous clear blue sky and sea during our first day

- Oh and also our hotel in Glasgow, Citizen M, deserves a post all to itself. Seriously, it was the most perfect   travel (as opposed to just leisure) hotel I have ever stayed at.

Enough words.

Good night for now!