The Men of Worth Tour Days 1-3

We met up with the tour group on Thursday June 17. We connected with Carol's Grandpa Smith and her cousin Chris Day who were on the tour with us. It was early so we went into Glasgow to look around some more and kill some time. We rode the "Hop on, hop off" tour bus around the city and saw a lot of things that Carol and I had not seen on our pedestrian tour. The pics are Grandpa and Chris on the bus, the fountain at The People's Palace, and our afternoon pint stop at the Grant Arms pub.
We met with the rest of the tour group that evening and had a Welcome Drink and dinner. Carol, Chris, and I were the youngest people on the tour. The tour is usually driven by a group of people that are interested in Celtic and folk music. This makes it fairly easy to start up conversations with people. We were very fortunate to have around 10 musicians with the tour other than Donnie and James of the band. There was going to be several nights of music on the trip.

The next day we went way up the east coast of Scotland. We made a lunch stop in Pitlochry where we had a pint and Carol got a Clan Anderson tartan cap.

From here we continued to Ullapool on Loch Broom. (http://tinyurl.com/265dojn) We stayed at the Royal Hotel which was very nicely appointed. The scenery along the way was spectacular. We saw many lochs, glens, and fields.


The next day we went to the Inverewe Gardens, just a short trip from Ullapool, and walked around.
We spent the rest of the day walking around Ullapool. There was live music both nights we were there including a guest bagpiper named Allistair Curry and the Ullapool Celtic Choir.

We stayed up late both nights and hung out in the bar with some of the other tour members and Jomes and Donnie from the band. The sun didn't set until around 10:30p the whole time we were there. Makes for a nice view at night.