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Wednesday 4 May, with a detour to Beauly

Scotland 2005 - part I

Elisabeth & Teije
2006-08-27 09:36:13

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It is still early when we leave Groningen to drive to Schiphol near Amsterdam. The weahter has been very nice, the last few days, but it is getting colder again. When we arrive it starts to rain a little bit. But we are inside Schiphol here, where it si warm and dry and we put our wet jackets in the travel bags.

We have followed the weather in Scotland for a few weeks and it has been cold for the time of year. The weather forecasts also say it will be 11 to 13 degrees the coming week. Well, not much colder than it will be in Holland, but almost the same temperatures we had when visiting Scotland in March and April the last years. But it is not the weather that we go for.

After a short flight we see justr a few clouds over Scotland, so we know we can expect some sunshine. Well, we should know by now how variable the weather is in Scotland. Eeven when it rains for some time, the sun can get through the clouds at any moment.

After passing the unexpectedly severe check at the custums, we get a surprise: somebody asks me (Elisabeth just missing it since she is visiting the toilet) if we have a website about Scotland, since he recognises us from the photographs! We could have expected it to happen some time, but this is the first time we are recognised.

At 2 o'clock we leave in our rental car, the nice black one, and soon we see the first mountains when we pass Perth. As so many other times we see a nicelooking village from the highway and since we are early, we decide to have a closer look.

It is the village Birnam, near Dunkeld and known from Shakespeare's MacBeth. MacBeth will never be defeated until the woods of Birnam come to Dunsinane Hill, one of the apparitions of the witches warns MacBeth. As shocked as MacBeth must have been when he really saw the woods of Birnam coming towards him (men who used the branches of the trees as camouflage to get nearby), that is how surprised we are when we get out ...

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