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Scotland 1999

Tom took his annual journey to Scotland this year accompanied by 6 stalwart customers. Mike Thompson, Tim McKinney, Ted and Peblina Paradise, Joy Free and Marcy Albert signed on and gamely schlepped and slurped their way through the heart and fringes of the Auld Country. 

  

 

Mike, seeking his Highland roots on the Isle of Bute, confronts Cleo, devil hound of Loch Ascog, while wearing the Morrison tartan kilt, the Ross tartan tie, and the Saddle Rack tartan shirt.

 

 

At Edinburgh Castle

 

 

Glenkinchie Distillery

 

Mike on the
Swilken Bridge,
St Andrews

 

 

At St. Blane's, 11th century church ruins, Isle of Bute

 

 

 

Joy and Marcy by 5,000 year old standing stones,
Kilmartin Valley, Argyll

 

 

Tom, with Steven and Agnes, our hosts at the Port Royal Hotel

 

 

The Port Royal Hotel,
Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute

 

 

 

Mike, Marcy, Joy, Julie and Tom
on the ferry to Tarbert

 
Lunch at
Glenfarclas
Distillery:
Tom and Mike with John and Ishbel Grant
and Malcolm
Greenwood

 

Ted demonstrating thumbscrews on the Edinburgh Murder Tour

 

 

One of the 60 Tall Ships at the
Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race,
Greenock

 

 

Mike at the Mash Tun Pub,
Aberlour

 





Joy and Marcy
at St. Andrews Cathedral ruins

 

 

Mike with
John and Hazel
and Robert

 


Mike at Duffus Castle, Elgin