Epic road trip to Scotland

and back

in less than 48 hours !!!

 

Some of you may not know

that my eldest son , Jonathan

has a son named Aidan age 9,

who lives with his mum in

Cupar Fife.

 

Aidan wanted to come down

to England to spend Easter with his dad,

Claire and his sisters Olivia and Amelia (who he

had not seen) ... but he also wanted his dad

to go and see where he lives ..(they live  in a different

house now) .. SO I said I would accompany my

son on the journey up there !!!!!!

 

I must be mad ....don't answer that ;-)

So we set off on Thursday at

10.30 am ,, arrived in St Andrews ,Fife

at around 6.30 pm....

 

It was not a very eventful journey,

(only the nightmare traffic on M6,)

UNTIL
There we were crusing along nicely on the M74 

when all of a sudden  the SAT NAV.. 

decided it wanted to take 

us  off our route ,

up into the highlands ,

Please click on photos to enlarge..

it took us to a place called Moffat

then through some tiny villages

 apparently

this is the Edinburgh SCENIC route,

as much as I love scenery , it was a bit bleak up there

and so many windy roads.

Scenic routes are quite  nice, but not when you want
to get somewhere in a hurryy!!!

As you can imagine, Jonathan wondered what was going on !!

We stayed overnight in The West Port, which I can

say I would stay again, it was fab.

Up at 06.45 am, breakfast at 07.00 am

(amazing breakfast) ... picked Aidan up

at 8.00am , left Cupar at 08.30am

and on the road again!!

Please click on photos to enlarge

 These photos were taken on the way back ... can you see all the Wind Turbines!!

There are so many of them , in the snowy hills.

Photo in centre below is the Forth Road Bridge

and below it is the

Forth Bridge for the Trains.

The M6 was horrendous...(Birmingham area)

and finally made it back to my house at around 16.30pm..

and I think they got home to Winchester at 17.15pm.

 All in all , a good trip , even though it was

very tiring . 

But as my grandson said "Nanny , how can

you be tired, all you did was sit there, Daddy did the driving!!"

(Note to myself... change the date and time on my camera,, they were
taken on Thursday and friday ..promise!!)