I never know what my husband is going to
bring home when I let him out on his own. I’ve been told he has been
full of impulsiveness and mischief since he was a child, rushing up
behind his mother to untie her apron strings. His name is Jim, but his
mother, who was a Scottish McLeod, always called him Hamish when he was
in trouble. He is often in trouble and hears Hamish from me. I’m sure he
has undiagnosed attention deficit hyper activity disorder. He can’t sit
still. We rarely have a day when we are inside the house all day.
In the space of two months, we have been for
a holiday in Madeira, a trip to London to the opera, a trip to London to
see the musical “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” at the theatre, and now a
Lochs and Glens trip with a 7-week trip to the US to follow in just six
days from our return. He only went to Maxim’s to watch football on the
big screen! He came home with a newspaper ad for a Lochs and Glens
Ceilidh Break, six days with a pick-up in the town where we live, hotel,
breakfast and dinner, and daily excursions, all for £207. It was booked
before we went to bed that night!
Lochs and Glens own six hotels in Scotland and are
building a seventh. The company is family-owned and everything from
beginning to end is done to a high standard. Various tours run all year
round, leaving from different parts of the UK. You can find information
on them by going to
www.lochs.com. There is no
supplement for single travellers so it is a great opportunity for people
on their own to have a reasonably priced holiday. If you are coming to
the UK from other parts of the world, it is worth your while to book a
tour and get yourself to one of the pick-up points for a wonderful taste
of Scotland.
Your driver is also your guide and feeds you
Scottish history and interesting trivia during the tour. Our
driver/guide was Kevin Watts, who did a superb commentary and was very
friendly and helpful. If you go on his tour, he likes American hard gums
(gumdrops for those in North America), so bring them along or buy them
at the various sweet shops along the route. They keep him happy and he
shuts up for times while eating them! Only joking! He knows his job
and does it extremely well. Amazingly, on our tour there were three
other tour guides having a busman’s holiday – my husband who has done
guiding for Globus/Cosmos tours for 30 years, a man who did
driver/guiding for Glenton then Wallace Arnold, later Shearings, for 30
years, and a former guide for Titan Tours. All of them were impressed
with the tour. Try one – you’ll love it!
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