{"id":229,"date":"2016-06-12T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/?p=229"},"modified":"2016-08-07T02:09:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T06:09:57","slug":"june-12-scotland-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/06\/12\/june-12-scotland-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"June 12: Scotland in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

After our escape from Strathpeffer, the next evening we ended up in a small boutique hotel in Pitlochry.\u00a0 I picked that town because it was on the way to Edinburgh, and Fiona Graham, our hostess in Doune, had recommended it for shopping and lunch.\u00a0 Even though we were going to Pitlochry to sleep and have dinner, I figured it might be a nice town because Fiona had not steered us wrong yet.\u00a0 We were happy to discover that we landed in a charming boutique hotel with an excellent restaurant. What a difference from the night before!<\/p>\n

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East Haugh House, Pitlochry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now we\u2019re back in Edinburgh for our last night before flying to Berlin, Germany, tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Our first six days in Scotland were sunny and warm, the last three days were cool, under gray skies.\u00a0 Scotland is big.\u00a0 We did not nearly see everything we wanted to see.\u00a0 I want to come back and spend time in the highlands, but there are many places in the world I want to see where I\u2019ve never been at all, so we\u2019ll have to see.<\/p>\n

Highlights: Staying in the Garden Studio in Doune and just being in that general area.\u00a0 Our dinner at the Graham\u2019s, beginning with a bagpipe serenade, was wonderful.\u00a0 I could say the six days of sunny warm weather were a high point, but so was traveling through Glencoe under gray skies.\u00a0 And going to the dentist turned out to be an interesting experience, something you don\u2019t get from a travel agency.\u00a0 Only low point: Strathpeffer, but no regrets.\u00a0 To get the feel of a country you need to have good and not so good experiences. That\u2019s what makes me feel like a traveler instead of a tourist.<\/p>\n

Photograph \u00a9 2016 P.J. Gardner<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After our escape from Strathpeffer, the next evening we ended up in a small boutique hotel in Pitlochry.\u00a0 I picked that town because it was on the way to Edinburgh, and Fiona Graham, our hostess in Doune, had recommended it for shopping and lunch.\u00a0 Even though we were going to Pitlochry to sleep and have … Continue reading “June 12: Scotland in Review”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}