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Just come back from a holiday in my Fatherland - Scotland.

I lived there from a bairn up to 16 when I joined the Army. I've lived in England ever since...so I've spent the majority of my years in England. Whenevr I go back to Glasgow, it's always to see friends and family...so I never get to see much of Scotland and I was getting pretty fedup being told by all sorts of nationalities how beautiful my own country is...so this time we rented a cottage for the week in a wee town calld Onich just south of Fort William

We wanted to climb Ben Nevis, but the weather was awful all week. It was eventually meant to be nice on Friday, so we choose that day to do it - unfortunately, I was advised not to go above 600 meters with the kids due to the 70mph gusts. We ended up going 900 meters and headed back down, gutted. But it will still be there for the doing another day.

Ben Nevis, by the way, is the biggest mountain in Britain standing a proud 1344 meters (4409 feet).

These are a few photos of our trip.


At the start looking fresh and keen

About 600 meters up here

As far as wee could go - 900 meters

Some more of our trip on Ben


Cathryn looking wind swept - and the cloud base the woman warned us about

What 900 meters up looks like from the side of Ben

The intrepid explorer

And what awaits you at the bottom

And the Commando Memorial just north of Fort William - very sombre place...

And In Memorium

The old...

...and the new...

And finally The Caledonian Canal

Oops - and of course - Nessie, The Loch Ness Monster!

Great pics. Hope you make it to the top someday.

Great pictures JD. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the pics Judge. I have very fond memories of Scotland, absolutely stunning landscape. Great place to ride your motorbike. Say, talking about Ben Nevis.... you *did* go to the distillery didn't you? The make world class whiskey and you can buy it there quite a bit cheaper.

Beautiful scenery. I especially like your hat!

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the pictures, JudgeDredd.

I'll be heading there next year for a self-driving tour.

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

Oops - and of course - Nessie, The Loch Ness Monster!

I knew it was real! (wonder why so many people had such a hard time getting pics or proof of it?)
*grin*

Well...Nessie's quite a disappointment, isn't she? Totally overhyped. [:D]

Great pics, JD.

Great photos Judge. I hope one day soon to make it over to Scotland. Where did you find those fine looking lassies?[;)] Nice family you have there.

great pics, a beautiful country (and lasses!)

OK, was I the only one who had to look up "bairn"? [&:] (figured it meant child, ankle-biter, lineoleum lizard, etc, but wanted to be sure...[:)])

Fake, all fake I tell you. This is supposed to be Scotland but not one view of a bottle, even so much as a dram of single malt? I think not.

You're a lucky man, JD! Beautiful country. Beautiful family. Thanks for sharing your holiday.

Yeah, JD thanks for sharing. Beautiful family, what the heck happened to you. [:'(]


I need to visit Scotland someday. My son has been over there, and our family orginated from there.

Nice photos. Looks like you have a nice family.


How is it that the best women always team up with the worst looking blokes ????


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