Scotland Beauty

Central Scotland and the Highlands has some great terrain.   Rolling hills and mountains make for some challenging roads.  The roads have lots of blind curves,  narrow with single lanes throughout.  It makes for white knuckle experience on the roads especially when the tour buses and trucks blast by going by the other way.  it takes twice as long to travel the same distance when compared to the roads at home.

We were on the road almost three hours to get to our next destination, the Glenfinnan Viaduct.  This is an old curved train bridge that is featured in the Harry Potter movies when the train is going to Hogwarts.  There is also a steam train that runs on this route twice a day each direction so we had to time it so we were there when the steam train went by.

Since our anticipated arrival time would mean about 90 minutes of waiting for the train to go by at the viaduct,  we stopped by the Dalwhinnie Distillery on the way and took a 45 minute tour which included a tasting at the end.  We arrived at the viaduct with enough time to park and make the 15 minutes hike to get close.  After photos of the viaduct and of the train going by, we drove straight back.  We had a few close calls on the road back.  I did have to make a sudden stop before a turn as a tour bus suddenly appeared.  I had to back up to the nearest pull out so that he could go by.