Homeward Bound
Monday 3rd June
The start of the long drive back home. We made a brief stop to view the Queen Mother’s home, the Castle of Mey, followed by another short stop at John O’Groats. We went to see the croft where John’s niece and family used to live before moving to Wales.
Heading south the scenery was especially spectacular as we drove through the Cairngorm National Park.
We stopped overnight in Bankfoot at the “Taste of Perthshire”, a Britstop site.
The start of the long drive back home. We made a brief stop to view the Queen Mother’s home, the Castle of Mey, followed by another short stop at John O’Groats. We went to see the croft where John’s niece and family used to live before moving to Wales.
Heading south the scenery was especially spectacular as we drove through the Cairngorm National Park.
We stopped overnight in Bankfoot at the “Taste of Perthshire”, a Britstop site.
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Tuesday 4th June
We continued our journey southwards making just one stop to view the incredible, ornate chapel at Rosslyn, just outside Edinburgh. The chapel was built in the late 15th century and is known for its intricate interior stone carvings as well as its exterior of pinnacles, gargoyles and flying buttresses. We just gasped when we entered the chapel – every piece of stone is elaborately carved – each piece has a story to tell and luckily for us, information boards told us the background to each carving – intrigue a plenty as the chapel is said to have crusade connections. As some of the carvings depict plants not grown in Scotland at that time, the assumption is that the founder’s grandfather, Prince Henry of Orkney, must at some stage in his adventures seen crops such as maize, growing in America. Intriguingly, this was at least a century before Columbus landed there! The chapel may also have been linked to the Knight’s Templar.
We continued our journey southwards making just one stop to view the incredible, ornate chapel at Rosslyn, just outside Edinburgh. The chapel was built in the late 15th century and is known for its intricate interior stone carvings as well as its exterior of pinnacles, gargoyles and flying buttresses. We just gasped when we entered the chapel – every piece of stone is elaborately carved – each piece has a story to tell and luckily for us, information boards told us the background to each carving – intrigue a plenty as the chapel is said to have crusade connections. As some of the carvings depict plants not grown in Scotland at that time, the assumption is that the founder’s grandfather, Prince Henry of Orkney, must at some stage in his adventures seen crops such as maize, growing in America. Intriguingly, this was at least a century before Columbus landed there! The chapel may also have been linked to the Knight’s Templar.
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On leaving Rosslyn our journey south took us through the Scottish border country and then across the Cheviot Hills of northern England before joining the A1 at Newcastle. We stopped for the night at the Woodman Inn, a Britstop in Burneston near Bedale.
Wednesday 5th June
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Wednesday 5th June
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