This summer, I went on an amazing road trip through England and Scotland with my family. I could sit here, four months later with the snow falling outside my window, and write pages upon pages about how beautiful it was: but a picture is worth a thousand words, so why tell you when I could show you?
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| The first night of our trip was spent in Belgium. We had an amazing campground right by the beach, so of course my sister and I took about a million photos by the water- this one is probably my favorite. |
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| After three days of driving, we finally made it to Scotland! |
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| Our first stop was the capital, Edinburgh. |
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Edinburgh as seen from The Mound.
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| Of course my sister and I went into Camera Obscura and took a bunch of silly pictures... |
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| …but there's no denying that the view from the top is one of Edinburgh's best. |
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The Grassmarket is also always worth a visit- two streets stacked on top of eachother isn't something you see every day.
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| Our next stop was Aberlour, in the Highlands. |
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| It's not a trip to Scotland if you don't hit up a Whiskey distillary- or five. This was the Cardhu Distillary in Aberlour. |
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| We also took a tour of the Glen Moray Distillary, where we learend a lot about the process of Whiskey-making. |
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| Some of the casks where whiskey is stored to mature over several years. Two had plastic bottoms so we could see the difference that a different type of cask makes- the whiskeys are completely different colors. |
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| Wow, something not whiskey-related! We took a day trip to the town of Pennan, where the movie "Local Hero" was filmed. |
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| Loch Ness is a must for a proper Scotland road trip, so next, we spent three days in Inverness. |
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| After Inverness we stayed in a town called Fort Williams, in the west of Scotland. From there we took a day trip to the Isle of Skye. |
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| Kilt Rock on the Isle of Skye, a waterfall that empties right into the sea. |
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| One of my personal highlights from the stay in Fort Williams was taking a ride on the Jacobite Train (aka the Hogwarts Express)... |
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| And crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct. |
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| On our last day in Scotland, we visited Oban. We wanted to tour the Whiskey distillary, but they were all booked out for that day, so we just walked around and explored the city. |
We ended our Road Trip with three days in London, a city that’s been on my travel bucket list for as long as I can remember. Even though we couldn’t go to the Warner Bros Studios (which I had been looking forward to), I still had an amazing time- and there’s always next time, right?
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| We did all the typical tourist-y things, like visit Tower Bridge... |
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| ...see Big Ben... |
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| …and take a ride on the London Eye! |
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| There's just something about the black cabs. |
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| A guard in front of Buckingham Palace. |
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| I mean, obviously I had to visit go to King's Cross as well. |
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| Hyde Park. It actually started raining about two minutes after this picture was taken. |
I truly had a great time exploring the UK with my family. Of course, not everything went smoothly- we got lost a few times, had to change plans because of stormy weather and don't even get me started on the long discussions about what movies to watch in the camper- but aren't those the small imperfections that make a road trip perfect?
