Oh, don't need a train. It's maybe half an hour by bus, tops.
Even better!
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.
That sounds FABULOUS! That's exactly the kind of thing we need.
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. :)
Wheee! Okay, now I'm gonna go look up day tours.
Oxford was okay, but it was just like a bunch of college buildings in a small town. I was expecting something "special", I guess.
Hey, it's like Kenyon! Except Oxford is totally bigger than Gambier... ;) I still kind of want to go if only because of Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Hee.
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.
I actually like the organizational aspects of planning your own trips, but a lot of stuff we want to see now requires a car or bus to get to, really, and trying to combine train and bus schedules usually lands you with a lot of waiting-around-at-a-station time
Ooh yeah, you're really in a corner, eh? *g*
I could only be more in a corner if I were in Cornwall.
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Date: 2005-02-08 12:42 pm (UTC)Even better!
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.
That sounds FABULOUS! That's exactly the kind of thing we need.
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. :)
Wheee! Okay, now I'm gonna go look up day tours.
Oxford was okay, but it was just like a bunch of college buildings in a small town. I was expecting something "special", I guess.
Hey, it's like Kenyon! Except Oxford is totally bigger than Gambier... ;) I still kind of want to go if only because of Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Hee.
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.
I actually like the organizational aspects of planning your own trips, but a lot of stuff we want to see now requires a car or bus to get to, really, and trying to combine train and bus schedules usually lands you with a lot of waiting-around-at-a-station time
Ooh yeah, you're really in a corner, eh? *g*
I could only be more in a corner if I were in Cornwall.