The monty python tour: castles and caves

Well folks, due to unfortunate circumstances, the girls have had to say goodbye to Scotland a day early. Never fear, it's not anything really serious, but more on that later. Firstly, I'd like to say that the girls spent a nice last night in the hostel chatting to an austrailian couple who were moving to Vancouver. They had lauren's Olympic sweater to thank for sparking that conversation. The next day they got up, checked out and headed down to the loch to stick their feet in. It was an adventure, as the path involved crossing a few streams with only fallen tree branches for bridges (doesnt sound difficult until you add 20 pound packs to mess with your gravity and balance). But they prevailed and got to go wading in the 11.5 degree loch. Chilly! Then they hopped on a bus to fort William, where they wandered around and ate some delicious indian food. After that it was off on another bus to appin, home of castle stalker, the castle used at the end of monty python and the holy grail! Cari was very excited! Once there, they pitched their tent on a random grassy spot across the lake from the castle and settled in for the night. After a cold night of sheep chourses and lumpy ground, they awoke to sun shining over the castle. The plan for the day was to continue on to find the cave of the killer rabbit, however, that is now not the case. Emma is nursing a not too fun cold, and city softie Lauren is not uber keen on roughing it anotther night, so cari and I are out of luck and we are all headed back to Nans. It must also be noted that without a gps system to help tell us how far we have walked an thus when to turn off the road, our rather vague directions might not have gotten there anyway. Sadly this means I will not get to visit my ancestral home where my great great great grandfather of monty python fame once resided, but such is life. Anywho, after a long day of travel (including a brief stop in Glasgow to catch the fantastic accents) the girls and I are back at Nans to regroup and check out some day trips they missed the first time around. 

Cheers
Tim