THE NAKED PHOTO ALBUM - HOLIDAY NORTH OF - THE BORDER This page has some pictures (well, twelve) of Scotland: Home of the Brave and the Sputal. Birthplace of Sean Connery and deep fried Mars Bars...

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PAUL'S THOUGHT: MAKE NOTES. QUESTIONS
WILL ALWAYS BE ASKED AT THE END

The pictures above were taken during my first trip to Scotland in 1999. Left: Grave thoughts. It was outside of Fort William I think that we spied this very photogenic and full on Hammer Horror graveyard. Middle: This is the most beautiful place on Earth. End of discussion. Right: I wanted to drive the perilous road across the Applecross (not a very Scottish name, to my mind) peninsula. And so I did. That's FREEDOM at work!

PAUL'S THOUGHT: THEY LAUGHED AT ME FOR MIXING UP
HARD WATER AND HEAVY WATER. THAT WAS UNTIL MY
BENDIX REACHED CRITICAL MASS AND LEFT A MILE DEEP
CRATER. THAT'S ONE PROBLEM CALGON WON'T BE FIXING!

The pictures above were taken during my second trip to Scotland in July 2003. Top left: Feeling a bit pooped a mere 1,300 feet up Ben Nevis. Only another 3,000 feet to go.... No, I didn't manage it! This picture also appears on my Portraits page. Top middle: While on Ben Nevis I passed this waterfall, where I could be seen looking much happier. Top right: As far north as I've ever been, and maybe ever will be. I strike a pose at the end of the quay at John o'Groats. Middle left: I relax in a wooly jumper next to the famous sign-post in John o'Groats. Compare with my trip to the Wild-Wild-West-Country in October 2002 when I visited Land's End in a thin shirt and met some very worried Brass Monkeys. Middle middle: The Wallace Monument beyond Stirling Bridge - where many Englishmen were slaughtered by a much smaller force of Scots in 1297, a plaque happily relates. Middle right: Passing point and loch somewhere remote in the Highlands. Note the very Scottish weather. Bottom left: Ben Nevis lost in clouds beyond the churchyard outside Fort William which I also visited in 1999. See the picture above! Bottom middle: Monument to David Stirling, founder of the SAS, beside the road from Stirling to Doune at sunset. Bottom right: Me with the famous Coconuts at Castle Anthrax (also known as Doune Castle) where many scenes for Monty Python and the Holy Grail were filmed. You want more about my Grand Scottish Adventure? I covered a total of 1,386.7 miles at an average of 51.3 MPH and 21.7 MPG. That's 63.7 gallons of fuel at about 77p per litre. I'll do the maths for you: £223 worth of petrol in 79 hours! That's an actual average speed of 17.6 MPH, day and night, over the four days of my trip... Want something a little more visual? Then click a link below for a video clip or two, or more.
Click for a video of me feeling the effects of The Falls of Foyers beside Loch Ness. (1Mb / 9 second / MPEG)	Click for a 888Kb / 70 second WMV video of John o'Groats. Discover how moved I was by being so far North.	Me being (coco)nutty in Monty Python's footsteps at Castle Anthrax/Doune. (528Kb / 40 second / WMV)
Click for a 5.97Mb / 81 second MPG video of me bottling on Ben Nevis. Or click here for a little 538Kb .WMV file.	Click for a 2.82Mb / 39 second MPG video of me philosophising at around 2,000 feet on the way back down Ben Nevis.	Click for a 6Mb / 83 second MPG file of Doune Castle, where The Holy Grail was filmed, or here for a small WMV file.

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