Highlandin’ Around to Fort William
February 2nd, 2002
Glen Shiel, Eilean Donan Castle, then we met our tour guide’s parents.
From Kyleakin to Fort William, I jumped back on the next energetic circuit of MacBackpackers tours. This tour was interesting with its new tour guide ‘assistant’ Joanna and jumpin in his seat Graham. They made the rest of my trip really enjoyable. They took us around to Eilean Donan Castle, Glen Shiel, and then we went to Graham’s house to visit his parents and experience the ‘highland hospitality’ of Scotland. Afterwards a girl from South Africa, Nicola, decided to make us a memorably delicious curry for dinner. Tonight was the Rugby game in Edinburgh versus England took place and from being exposed to a Scottish perspective of history I can understand the underlying meaning and aggression from this turf’ fighting game. The English won and celebrated the ‘proper’ way with tea and crumpets, but if Scotland were to win, Graham would guarantee the country going absolutely crazy. Apparently soccer is already banned between the two countries because the last time the Scots won and crowded the field to grab parts of it. The tour helped me understand the distinctive differences and hatred between English and Scottish.
Welcome to my site and I hope you enjoy it. When I first travelled to Europe while I was in college I really had the time of my life seeing the many different types of cultures. The flavors of the food, the welcome of the people, the love shared across the world was so much greater than living in the United States ... 
