Saturday, December 11, 2004

Scotland - Day 2

I slept on it and yeah, I'm not leaving.

Slept on it a lot actually, didn't make it out the bed until 11:30am....but since we're six hours ahead, I got up early by Mpls time.

Made it out of bed, SSSed and wondered off into the town. Got a haggis stromboli from a little place, and then headed out to the Pentland Hills. Actually, I just got in the car and started driving and ended up there, but it was nice all the same. With no place particular to be, I just figured I'd drive around and find out where I find things interesting and ended up on a road with these constant big signs with a camera icon (black outline of what looked to be an old Polaroid), so I'm thinking this must be the way to the "Camera Obscura" which is in town....found out later that those are the traffic signs to let you know that police cameras are active. Luckily I wasn't speeding.

Followed the road for awhile heading towards this large hill which I assume had the "Camera Obscura" on it. When I arrived, I discovered it to be more of a farm and historical monument. Located at this site was the remains of Castle Law and an earth house...or more appropriately just the earth house, which is essentially an ancient form of cellar where food and such would have been stored under ground. The land was quite pretty though, and the Scottish Army trains on the grounds so at least it gets a lot of use.

More later after some rest.....

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