Glasgow, Scotland

Fort William, Scotland

We met a real-hunter on the way. He is wearing highland camouflage. Really smell like the mountains and he seems to have plenty of equipment in his gear-bags. Another one bag is really huge, looks like a deer or a mountain-goat body.

Also met another group (a family of 3), a father and two sons, wearing the same style of pants, looking very unique and scottish. I asked them were you guys also hunting? They said no, they were camping out in the wild. How cool is that?

Meet Wallace and the Bruce, Scotland

First, Robert The Bruce and the Castle
Then headed to William Wallace Monument via infamous Stirling Bridge!
Real Men wear Kilts!

paying a visit to Loch Ness but didn't see Nessie, the monster

Scotland's most famous mystery: the Loch Ness monster
LOCH NESS sits across the enormous geological gash of the Great Glen. It is the largest fresh-water lake in the UK and is 24 miles long. It averages a depth of 450 feet, but plunges down to a depth of over 1,000 feet in places.
It is deep enough to hide very large creatures without most people noticing.

Most people.

This loch, as anyone who knows anything about Scotland, is also the reputed home of the Loch Ness Monster.

The first recorded sighting of "Nessie" – as she is most commonly known – was in 565AD when St Columba summoned and then banished a monster in the loch. For many centuries after this there were sightings of an Each Uisge – or water-horse – a beast that lived in water and drowned unsuspecting mortals.

When a new road was built round the loch in 1933, the number of sightings soared. Nessie’s first outing in print came the same year when Alex Campbell, a bailiff with the local fisheries board, told the Inverness Courier of his encounters with the beast. More sightings followed, and in 1934 the famous "surgeon's photo" was published. Taken by R Kenneth Wilson, a London surgeon, this is perhaps the most recognisable face of Nessie with the trademark long neck and small head. Recently the photo has been judged to be a fake, but it certainly led to increased interest in the subject at the time.

Throughout the late 20th century a number of studies have been set up to investigate whether or not there is anything in the loch. In 1960 students from Oxford and Cambridge universities conducted the first sonar soundings of the loch. Their results? Inconclusive. Two years later the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau covered the loch with cameras, sent down submarines and even swept over the whole area in a hot air balloon. Like every other investigation before and after their findings were inconclusive.

In 1967 a young cinematographer filmed something that he did not recognise in the loch. The investigation bureau asked him to join their team, and Dick Raynor has been looking for the monster ever since.

Stirling, Scotland

Stirling makes a very good base for exploring it is situated between the Highlands and Lowlands. It was here that the Scots under William Wallace defeated the English in 1297 at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, they fought and won again under Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. I, personally love this town. So much self-confidence, friendly and courageous.

Potree, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Edinburgh, Scotland

Edinburgh (pronounced ED-in-burra) is a major and historic city on the east coast of Scotland on the south shore of the Firth of Forth, and in the unitary local authority of City of Edinburgh. It has been the capital of Scotland since 1492 and is the site of the Scottish Parliament, which was re-established in 1999. The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995. In the census of 2001 Edinburgh had a total resident population of 448,624.

The origin of the city's name is understood to come from the Brythonic Din Eidyn (Fort of Eidyn) from the time when it was a Gododdin hillfort, perhaps when it was the home of the mid-6th century King Clinog Eitin whose epithet records the placename. After it was besieged by the Bernician Angles the name changed to Edin-burh, which some have argued derives from the Anglo-Saxon for Edwin's fort, possibly derived from the 7th century Northumbrian king Edwin. However, since the name apparently predates King Edwin, this is highly unlikely. Edinburgh is well known for the Edinburgh Festival, a collection of several arts festivals, and for the Hogmanay celebrations which are becoming one of the largest in the world.

Cardiff City, the Capital of Wales

Meet the archers!
We went to several places but my favourite place is the Archeological Museum of Wales. Discorvered how "WE ARE ONE" in millions of years ago. Moment like this put things in perspective. The Welsh (Cymry) are an ethnic group or nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language, which is a Celtic language. Here, the official language is Welsh and English.

Also discorvered step-by-step history of Wales;
1 Prehistoric Wales
2 Wales under the Romans
3 Sub-Roman Wales and the Age of the Saints
4 Early Medieval Wales
5 Wales and the Normans
6 Annexation: from the Statute of Rhuddlan to the Laws in Wales Acts
7 From the Union to the Industrial Revolution
8 The Nineteenth Century
9 The Twentieth Century
10 The Twenty-first Century