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Four months ago my daughter Penny and her husband Martin packed their bags and moved five hundred miles north to Scotland. I recently spent three days with them in and around their new home in the Trossachs National Park near Loch Lomond and not too far from Glencoe.

Any preconceived ideas I had about the country and its people were completely blown away helped partly by gale force winds! I was amazed as the beautiful landscape unfolded before me, and charmed by the hospitality I received everywhere we went. I took several hundred photos, and after spending many hours sorting through them, I have chosen those I feel best to represent my experience. You could be forgiven that thinking I have made the colours more intense. It was not necessary. I have never seen richer colours anywhere in the world.

         *Click on the pictures to enlarge them and vastly improve the quality

Penny and Martin indulged my love of whisky by arranging for me to take a tour of Glengoyne Distillery.

Yes, that bottle really is £2850!

...and then we were back on the road again!

I couldn't be there on Burns Night and not have Haggis tatties and neaps with a wee dram on the side. The pub we went to had shelves filled with dozens of  brands of malt whisky.

Fasten your seatbelt - we are off again!

And so it's farewell and thank you to Penny and Martin. I'm looking forward to coming back in the Summer!

Six months later I returned. I looked so different in Summer.