The Gathering

This man is happy with his Caber toss.



I wonder what was so funny?!

At the end of July, we joined 47,000 other people and visited Holyrood Park to attend The Gathering.
According to http://www.clangathering.org/, The Gathering is a celebration of Scotland’s culture, clans and families.
There were lots of Scottish food stalls, beer tents, and Clan tents where you could go and talk to other clan members. (kind of stitched Kirsty up with that one..There was a tent for the Macallum clan which she is related to, so I kind of mentioned it to the guy who was head of it and he rabbited on and on to poor Kirsty!) : )
There was a whisky tasting tent and I tried some really nice Tallisker whisky called 57 degrees North. I really liked it but it was for sale at £50 a bottle..bit out of my price range.
We got to see Highland Games, saw a speech by Prince Charles and just had a nice day out.

Sorry

Sorry for the lack of posts. Just not enough hours in the day and it is very time consuming to update the blog.
Will do my best to try and get some new updates on this week.

Falkirk Wheel 2

The Falkirk Wheel

It was interesting watching this game of kayak polo. A fast paced and quite violent game.

Added entertainment, they put on a fire show for us.

A while ago we visited the Falkirk Wheel. It was a nice day out and a fascinating piece of engineering.
It is the largest rotating boat lift in the world.
Basically the canal boats travel along a canal, enter the wheel and are then lowered to another canal.
Each gondola holds 300 tonnes of water but because there are two of them and they are balanced, it uses hardly any energy at all to raise or lower the canal boats.

Goodwood Festival of Speed III

Goodwood Festival of Speed II

Goodwood Festival of Speed 1

Some photos from an excellent event. It really was fantastic. So much to see that I could quite easily have spent all week there! It is a 3 day event.
We visited Southern England for the weekend with Kirsty's mum and managed to visit quite a few places.