Ooooh... I have every intention of flying into Inverness and then taking a train closer to Loch Ness.
Oh, don't need a train. It's maybe half an hour by bus, tops. We took a tour out of Inverness that was more of a "here are the stops we'll make, the bus will be here every 45 minutes or whatever, last one goes through at 5 pm" kind of thing. I know that one went to Culloden, Cawdor Castle, and Nairn. The one that went to Drumnadrochit & Urquhart (included a short boat trip on the lake) was the day trip from Edinburgh, but I'm totally sure they have organized tours out of Inverness. The tourist office there is really nifty and helpful. And Inverness is pretty, too. :)
That would be good...we could do them in the same weekend, then. Oxford was disappointing, huh?
I'm 90% sure it was the same trip. Oxford was okay, but it was just like a bunch of college buildings in a small town. I was expecting something "special", I guess.
We've been contemplating tours, 'cause travelling on your own tends to take up half a day, what with waiting for trains, etc.
Yeah. I didn't mind traveling on my own when there wasn't a tour to what I wanted (ie, Lillehammer), but it's so nice to not have to worry about whether or not you're actually heading in the right direction, having someone there to tell you what you're seeing without having to look it up, etc.
Especially if it was a day tour, and we could arrange our own hostel-fied housing, that would be good
Yeah, most of the ones I did were day or half-day tours. Then the one on-and-off deal from Inverness.
Exeter is in Devon, in the southwest tip of England.
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Date: 2005-02-06 07:27 pm (UTC)Oh, don't need a train. It's maybe half an hour by bus, tops. We took a tour out of Inverness that was more of a "here are the stops we'll make, the bus will be here every 45 minutes or whatever, last one goes through at 5 pm" kind of thing. I know that one went to Culloden, Cawdor Castle, and Nairn. The one that went to Drumnadrochit & Urquhart (included a short boat trip on the lake) was the day trip from Edinburgh, but I'm totally sure they have organized tours out of Inverness. The tourist office there is really nifty and helpful. And Inverness is pretty, too. :)
That would be good...we could do them in the same weekend, then. Oxford was disappointing, huh?
I'm 90% sure it was the same trip. Oxford was okay, but it was just like a bunch of college buildings in a small town. I was expecting something "special", I guess.
We've been contemplating tours, 'cause travelling on your own tends to take up half a day, what with waiting for trains, etc.
Yeah. I didn't mind traveling on my own when there wasn't a tour to what I wanted (ie, Lillehammer), but it's so nice to not have to worry about whether or not you're actually heading in the right direction, having someone there to tell you what you're seeing without having to look it up, etc.
Especially if it was a day tour, and we could arrange our own hostel-fied housing, that would be good
Yeah, most of the ones I did were day or half-day tours. Then the one on-and-off deal from Inverness.
Exeter is in Devon, in the southwest tip of England.
Ooh yeah, you're really in a corner, eh? *g*