Goodbye Scotland (hello London)

We are back in London tonight, kicking back. Our hosts are away for the evening so we are vegging out on the couch over a curry and lager for dinner...quite boring of us really! The last couple of days have involved a fair bit of travel, yesterday from Port Appin to Edinburgh and today to London. On the way yesterday we visited Stirling Castle which was probably the best of the major monuments we saw in the UK, as it had been left mostly as it was and not tarted up too much for the tourists. In fact they are busy with archealogical work at the moment to discover how the castle changed over time and we were able to see the work in progress. The interactives were also very good. It was raining quite heavily at times yesterday...our first rain in Scotland believe it or not!! But we were in the car most of the time so it wasn't a problem. It was a downpour at night so we had a quiet night just popped down the local for fish & chips. This morning we vistited the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, there were major exhibitions of Mapplethorpe and Van Gogh plus a good permanent collection. The back on the train to London and a lazy night in...