Miles behind

So we're miles behind in our blogging. Its been quite hard to get sufficient time at a computer with internet in between our travelling. We only managed to put up those photos and a few blog stuff while we were in transit in Glasgow. So we're going to be a bit vague in blogging about what we've been up to in the last week.

In brief:
Still in the lakes district, the day after our excursion out to the stone circle, Pamela arranged a family outing on a real steam train from Carnforth to Ravenglass through some lovely scenery. We went over the bridge over the Morcambe bay (a big sandy tidal bay) (which is really long with 51 arches). Once in Ravenglass we took another rail trip on a mini-steam train on narrow gauge rails. It was called the Ravenglass & Eskdale railway and goes through some more lovely hillside scenery.

Next day we went to Sizergh Castle which is where Gem's Uncle Harry used to be a room steward. The gardens there are really nice.

That was the end of our trip in the Lakes. We dropped Auntie Kath back at the train station the next morning (and thankfully this time the train service was perfect and she got home with no trouble at all) and we caught a train up to Glasgow. We stayed the night there at a hostel right on the riverside. This turned out to be a little annoying as there we heaps of seagulls squawking away in the late and early hours.

The next day we headed up to Perth by train so we could catch the local bus through to Comrie to stay with Duncan and Keri (my cousin) which is where we are right now. It was a pain having our packs while we were in Perth because we couldn't really do any touristy stuff and we couldn't leave them in a luggage place because of these new age security reasons.

Its been really nice catching up with my Auntie Penny and Uncle David as they are over here vising Keri (their daughter). While we've been here we've been to Drummond Castle gardens and we went to Scone (pronounced skoon) Palace which is where the Scottish Kings were crowned and that was really cool to hear about the Scottish Royalty and how it all ties into the English royalty and the wars between them.



Anyway, we're about to head out to Pitlochry now so we'll blog more later and maybe flesh out the descriptions of what we've been doing.

Till next time.
Gem and Jez