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<\/a><\/p>\nIt was a really cozy place to settle into and within walking distance of the town centre and the golf course (Dornoch is not actually that big).\u00a0 We were treated to a nice marching pipe band on our first evening.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we missed the dancers and we only got to see the rain kilts instead of the dress kilts because the rain was coming down pretty good.<\/p>\n
We had a nice dinner and got to bed so we could be well rested for golf the following day.\u00a0 We played at the Royal Dornoch.\u00a0 While the Royal Dornoch golf club was officially established in 1877, they claim that folks have been playing golf there since 1616…\u00a0 just about 400 years!\u00a0 It is considered a pretty excellent golf course still today<\/a>.\u00a0 Bret and I were a little nervous that all the greatness of this course would be wasted on our lack of skill or experience playing golf, but we really had a great time.<\/p>\n Not only did we have great company in my parents and Tom, the caddy, but we had a beautiful sunny day to boot!\u00a0 Of course the wind shifted half way through the course and we did have to hit upwind for all but 4 holes.<\/p>\n After golf, we rushed a pint with Tom, then ran to our dinner reservation.\u00a0 What a great day.<\/p>\n The next day, we were off again.\u00a0 A long day in the car following the Caledonian canal to get to Glasgow.\u00a0 Our first stop was Loch Ness.\u00a0 We did not get a sighting of the monster, but the lake itself is very impressive.<\/p>\n We stopped for a little hike in Invermoriston.<\/p>\n Afterwards, we stopped in Fort William for lunch.\u00a0 Emily happened to ask about highland cows at the tourist information stop and they led us to one of the most impressive views of the trip in the Ben Nevis valley.<\/p>\n We got a pretty good look at the highland cows with the binoculars, but without zoom on our phone the pictures didn’t turn out so great.<\/p>\n So that you can see what they look like, here is a picture we didn’t take.<\/p>\n Luckily for us all, Bret promised Emily that she could have one someday, so you will all get a look at one up close (someday, that is).<\/p>\n We broke from the canal after Fort William and headed across some dramatic mountains to get to loch Lomond.<\/p>\n Nothing much to report on Glasgow.\u00a0 We had a nice Italian dinner and a walk along the river front the following morning before our flight out.\u00a0 It seemed like the town was having a major hangover following the Commonwealth games, so a lot of it wasn’t even open.<\/p>\n We were very sad to leave, but had more adventures to attend to in Cork… but that is another post.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We left grey Aberdeen and drove to Dornach on a grey day.\u00a0 We stopped for a walk around Huntly late in the morning.\u00a0 There was a cute farmers market and a castle to explore there.\u00a0 Then we continued on to Elgin for lunch and a rainy stroll to the “castle,” which was really just a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bretandemily.com\/ireland\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n