I took a break in Scotland a while back, and I really enjoyed driving up there and back actually - even if it was 10 or so hours each way. Some marvellous scenery up there, sadly none of Loch Ness. I wanted to get to Uruqhart Castle, but the road I followed, signposted "loch tour" took us round the arse end of the loch with minimal view! Anyway, these are pics I took of other places in Scotland. Where in Scotland, I've no idea!

This is a fairly big image, it's of a marshy area. I pulled over here to pee behind a moss covered hill not far from the road

Again, a big pic. This is facing towards the road, just behind where I was standing to take the above shot. In the back right, there is a stone sticking up from the puddle - this is what I wanted to photograph, but because the ground was soaking wet, I didn't want to kneel or lie down, obviously. So I took pot luck and just put the camera on the floor, pointed it in roughly the direction of the puddle and stone, and took the photo. What I wanted is barely visible and doesn't work. But what I got instead is probably better than the result I'd have got if my intended shot worked properly! So I'm not complaining.

This was taken in a car park at the side of a road running straight through a valley. On either side, massive hills - I'd go so far as to call them mountains! This shot is to the left of the road as I was travelling along it. Months and months after this picture was taken, I bought 'Monty Python And The Holy Grail' on DVD. On the extras disc, is a feature of Palin & Jones revisiting some of the locations used in making the film in 1974. There is a shot of these hills/mountains taken from damn near the exact same spot I was standing! They filmed the Bridge Of Death for 'The Holy Grail' not far from here - off shot to the left somewhere. I was stunned when I saw the shot of these hills from near enough the same spot I was! Only difference being that my shot was zoomed out more so I could take in the sheer SIZE of these hills/mountains/things.

I was quite chuffed when this shot came out - I've turned just to the right of the above shot. Beautiful scenery with the sun reflecting off the loch in the valley. What you don't see though, is the big yellow 'No overnight parking' sign just millimetres out of shot beneath the frame.