Tag:Scotland

Today is Chris’s return date. Good thing as it is raining just about everywhere in Scotland. It is about 90 min drive to Edinburgh and we wanted to see the castle & Royal mile with what time we had before Chris’s plane departed. Although we had a GPS heading for a parking garage downtown Edinburgh, we could not find it. It became a real challenge to find ANY parking near downtown but eventually we did. Headed to the castle, which […]

Our tee time for our final round is not until 14:30. I dragged Chris out of bed to climb to the top of St Rules Tower. A climb of 400 steps. After that, we explored a few shops for memorabilia. Our golf trip is over! We played Carnoustie as our final round. The weather was almost perfect: gentle breeze with sunshine & a temperature of 13. This was the tie-breaking round and in an epic battle for the ages, we […]

Chris’s Corner Another day in the small village of St. Andrews. We had our usual breakfast of scrambled eggs and sausages. We then walked down from our guesthouse to the Old Course (5 mins) to meet Gary, another local tour operator, who sold us his guaranteed tee time on the old course.  We were hooked up with a father and son, David and John, from Toronto and North Bay respectively.  Nice people Canadians, very similar to the Scots.  They were […]

I turned over the majority of blog writing to Chris for this day but I have a few comments. We are staying at a Guest House called Lorimer House, which is just a large B&B. Ours has 5 rooms and is run by the owner & his wife. We arrived about an hour earlier than our expected time, and when Michael (owner) answered the door, I was thinking Hotel Bates, the way he stared us down. Once he found out […]