Road Trip I - Day one

we had got a ford for the 2 days..!!!anyway at arnd 9:30 am those (3 0f them - vinay, srijith and basu) came...so totally we were 4!! Srijith was he only one who knew the way around..!!he ws drivin intially...we first touched this place called STIRLING...we stopped at a petrol bunk here...coz the shop adacent to bunk was the only one open..bought some biscuits, wafers, chips and diet coke and continued on our journey...!!in between wherever therer were good sights..or good scenery..me n basu forced srijith to stop the car and took snaps..!! then the next stop we had was PERTH..there was nothing much to see over there...we were headed for this place called INVERNESS..which is one of the northern most part of scotland..!!Ness (Nis) is supposed to be someone's name..none knows..whose it is...!!!anyway...at perth..Basu took over the wheels..and he was driving..!!In the car we were listening to music of Kal Ho Na Ho,Kuch Kuch Hotha Hain,Dil se,Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gam...!!in short shahrukh hits;-)

anyway...then we reached INVERNESS...and booked 2 rooms for ourselves...it is called Bed n Breakfast!! It costs 23 pounds per person per night...for a room including the breakfast..we get for breakfas..orange juice, bacon and eggs, grilled tomato n beans and coffee!!!anyway after that was done...we decided too go see the LOCHNESS lake.."LOCH" means lake and "NESS" as i told before...someones name..!!This lake is famous for the LOCHNESS monster...!!It seems in 6th century St. Columbia reported that he saw a huge monster in this lake...and ever since then or sometime later the KODAK company has declared that anyone who gets a snap of this monster(if ever one existed), he/ she will get 1 million pounds...!!Have taken snaps here too..!!pinne we rode on to this castle called Uqrart castle..It is one of those castles..which was ruined in the battles and only a part of the castle remains now...even now the stone flinger exists..which was the beginning of the canon balls being fired later down the years!!!! Then we continued on our drive to view the "5-sisters" - this is a group of 5 hills...which was named 5 sisters for some reason...the history behind this naming i could not get..!!

then continued on the drive...and went to this place called Isle of Skye..!!didnt go to the island..since that wud take a lot of time..went up to the entry of this island..there is an amazing brige which connects the main land to this island..!!have takn snaps of these...!anyway..athu kazhinju..we decided to come back..and i took the driver role..and was drivin cool...just cruisin with this vehicle.amazin drive..was cruisin at 70 miles/hour and then suddenly realised that this was equal to abt 112 kms/hour!!anyway..the roads are extremely good and it was highway..so cooly put the car on 4th gear and drove on..!!

We reached back INVERNESS by around 5:00 pm and saw on the map...somethin called as BLACK ISLE wild life sanctuary..!!we decided t go there..went there and saw that the admission tickets for viewin this closed at 5:00 pm and we were late..!!initially we were slightly down coz of not being able to view this..but then saw the list of animals/ birds that were there in this wild life..and guess what were these animals.. - Pigs,deer,cow,sheep,lambs,hen,chicken,ducks and few more domestic birds..!we felt it was more of a DOMESTIC WILD LIFE>>.!!anyway then were happy that we didnt waste cash on them.!! then decided to drive back home...i mean.the room we had bookd..!!reached the room..freshnd up..!!!4 of us sat and watched the match between Holland v/s Sweden!!and once that was over..went to sleep!!! well we had got the laptop thinkin that digital camera will run out of space and so wil upload the snaps to laptop and then continue takin more snaps next day as well.!!but guess what happened..!!we took the digital camera...we took the laptop..but the USB required to transfer these snaps..well we forgot..!anyway luckily we had 2 dig cameras..so no problems..!!