Trip to the Highlands, Week 1

Finally I managed it to put all the pictures together and give you guys a taste of the Highlands!
(sorry for the quality, I had to resize them to upload them...)

First I wanna show you guys where I've been... the next biggest village next to Talmine is Tongue. As you can see is it on the top north of Scotland just at the Atlantic coast.


This is a view from Tongue to the ruined Caisteal Bharraigh (or Castle Varrich)
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/tongue/tongue/index.html


The house where we stayed was in Talmine and the view out of my room where I was sleeping and studying looked like this at 00:29 ( half past midnight!! )
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/tongue/talmine/index.html


This picture is from the first day when we were running a bit around to discover the area.


This ship is laying on the beach of Talmine (and I'm proud of this shot :))

This is the wall which protects the ships in the port behind it.
I forgot the name, but this is actually the national flower of Scotland and as you can see is it growing pretty high...
On the right side you can see a few houses. They are belonging to the neighbor village called "Midfield" ... so I discovered the miracle where the German "Midfiled" was hiding during the Final of the Euro 2008 because when I was following the Game I couldn't really see it...
On Wednesday we made a great hiking tour up Ben Hope (you can see the top in the background). He is 927m high and we made it in 2 hour up and then 2 hours down again ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hope

(I was wearing this t-shirt because I was sure that nobody would see me there ;))

View down to the Loch Hope.

Me :)
The top.
Me on the top :)
During the next days we just made a few small hikes up a few hills just around the house.
Here are now some pictures of my travel down on Saturday. I was driving down to Edinburgh from Saturday to Monday because Lorraine invited me to join her and her family at her Graduation ceremony at the Heriot Watt University.

This is how the single-track-roads look like. To come to Tongue you have to drive about 1 hour on such a road where you have just passing places you have to use when you meet other cars.

Ok, I didn't have to drive over this bridge, I saw this one just when I had a stop to get some gas :)
...to be continued with my adventures of week 2 :)