Yep......one week to go till we leave for the airport overnight stay.......and we are so excited!!!!
The visit to Scotland last week certainly took some of the wait time off our minds and we did have a lovely visit. I did tell Maria, I would post some pictures, but we really didn`t take too many as it was all about family time, however we did take a couple on one of the days.
Culzean Castle which is not far from where we grew up. Beautiful castle in stunning grounds and it was one place my cousin wanted to go back to as she has fond memories of going with her parents, sister and an aunt and uncle as a 10 year old when she came over for her first visit.
We hit it off so well as children back then, we were the same age and bonded immediately for that whole summer in the late 1970`s they were here.
Going to NY for the first time in 2013, we hadn`t seen each other in all that time, but we met and it was as if we had just seen each other the week before. So, being able to see her back here was lovely and quite an emotional visit for her as it brought back lots of lovely memories.
The view from the Castle over the water to close to where I grew up.
This Castle is one of the standard places you went to as a child on school trips, whether you wanted to or not. I didn`t remember anything about it until I walked in the first room and it all came flooding back to me. I did remember running around the vast gardens with friends on that visit, but the memories of the Castle were so vague....well, it was 45 years ago!!!! Heck......
Definitely got a Titanic impression from this staircase.
And this was the office Eisenhower used as part of his base here in the Castle during the war. We didn`t get to see the private apartments he stayed in during the war up on the top floor, but the family still live in the castle, so I guess it`s part of their private living areas now. Not a bad place to be based!
This was from the beach I played on as a child. That sunset is one of the most beautiful you can ever see and changes nightly, no two are ever the same. Our home was a 2-3 minute walk from this beach, so we were very lucky having such a gorgeous playground on our doorstep.
I love this place.
So, not too many pictures from our recent trip. We go back up for Christmas again this year and staying at the same hotel we always stay in which has this same view that we so love to see when we go back. When I think of my childhood, this Island is a large part of my memories.