More Views from Scotland

Yesterday we saw more of Edinburgh, including an exhibit of contemporary Scottish painters, the St. Giles Cathedral, and a lot in between. Here’s the Walter Scott Monument, standing in our path. Or wait, is that Barad-dur?

Well, whichever, here’s Allysen tasting an Old Engine Oil Stout with her fish and chips. Tastes good!

Today we boarded a train for Dunkeld, mostly to see the countryside—which was stunningly beautiful, very Middle Earthish…

…and to poke around Dunkeld-Birnam (here’s the River Tay and Dunkeld)…

which among other things contains the Beatrix Potter museum and garden. The museum was closed, but the garden was lovely, with bronze sculptures of Peter and a friend, and the fox…

…and also a gorgeous sculpture of a coo (a cow) painted with lovely psychedelic mushrooms.

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