We left Drumnadrochit on the shores of Loch Ness on a promising bright Saturday morning. I saw that along the route that I had chosen, there will be opportunities to view some castles at Kingussie, Pitlochry etc. Along the way we can see what the Scots do during weekends. Big-bikers, vintage cars and streams of Lotus Elises cruised up and down the country road. At other places, people parked by the wayside and did kayaking and fishing at the picturesque lake.
Weekend spin
It was a long and slow drive along motorways and country roads and our dinner last night at the Fiddlers in Drumnadrochit must have taken its toll on my co-driver and reserved driver. Whatever they imbibed during dinner have made them sleep all the way to Dundee! And the driver, being distracted by the hikers,bikers,easy-riders etc etc, missed all the intersections to the castles......
The highlands of Central Scotland is not as spectacular and rugged as the highlands on the west coast. Anyway it was a pleasure to finally arrive at Dundee and check into our prebooked B & B at Hotel Shaftesbury, located about a mile from downtown Dundee. It is a small outfit owned by a Hongkie with a lovely Chinese restaurant. The front-desk officer, a young Mr Lee, a Malaysian from Ipoh, came to study hospitality at Aberdeen and has settled down here for good. He visits his parents in Ipoh during the Chinese New Year. He said he loves the life-style and the pace of life here. He loves his work, earns enough for his comfort zone and he loves the golf games that he plays regularly. He cannot see himself fitting into the Malaysian obsession with money, money,money.....
The little garden of Shaftebury Hotel, Dundee
At last...my B & B in Dundee
We checked out Dundee that evening. It is a pretty city located by River Tay. It is very clean and for a small town, it has 4 0r 5 shopping malls. Of course this was a delight to my 'Malaysian' family.
Sculptures along pedestrian mall of Dundee city centre
Walking out of church?
As we missed lunch today we decided to treat ourselves to an award-winning Italian restaurant in Dundee, called ' the Italian'.
Raena's starter of baked escalopes
To 30 years of partnership
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