In the evenings in Scotland, we would relax and watch the tellie. We indulged in two funny local television shows --- “Border Patrol” and “Come Dine with Me”. Both are reality shows; one chronicles the exploits of the Border Police as they apprehend dimwitted perpetrators at the airport customs check. “Come Dine with Me”was my favorite – it plays two or three times a night so we got to enjoy it multiple times. This show pairs up four very incompatible people, who take turns putting on a dinner party for each other over four consecutive nights. Each participant then ranks the others’ event in rude and uncomplimentary terms, and the highest scorer wins a thousand pounds, after having to endure humiliating and awkward dinner conversation with people they don’t particularly like.
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| Goats on the trail ahead of us |
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| At the lake at the top of the falls |
Once we reached the top of the falls and took our share of pictures, Sharon and I hiked back and traveled down the road for a spot of tea and some scones, while Bob and Gordon continued the hike around the Loch and met us when we returned to town. As we sipped our tea at the little roadside
stop across from a beautiful lake, we met Annie, a woman a little older than us
who had cycled about 10 kilometers down the hill from her village and had also
stopped for tea to take the chill off.
Annie explained that she originally came from the part of Scotland above
Glasgow that is a peninsula “shaped like a penis”. I had to laugh.
Sharon and I returned to town and did a little
shopping at Lothlorian – a really cool antique shop full of lots of old china
and tea sets. We each bought a set of
“fish knives” which are silver plated knives a little wider than butter knives,
with beautiful scrollwork etched into the blade, and a set of matching forks. I
also bought some silver teaspoons and later in Ireland, I found a beautiful spode tea cup/saucer to complete my collection.
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