We started off the first full day of our trip by going to a restaurant that had gluten free options, Bill's Restaurant. It was only a few minutes walk from our hotel. By the way, we loved this restaurant! The overall look of the restaurant was really cool, the food was great, and they had gluten free stuff, too.
The inside of Bill's
View of the street from inside Bill's Restaurant
Eggs Benedict - my mom loved this!
After breakfast, we spent a few hours walking around the city centre and doing some shopping. I showed my mom some of the places that I used to go to. Then, it was time for us to check out of the hotel and head to our next destination. We went to the train station, and hopped on the train heading to Fort William, Scotland. The train ride took a few hours but the scenery was beautiful!
Finally, we arrived in Fort William, and headed to our next hotel. This time, we were staying in a B&B - St Andrews Guest House in Fort William
Funny story about this B&B... we walked from the train station and apparently we didn't see the entrance that we were supposed to use, so we dragged our suitcases up the stairs (the ones that you can kind of see in the picture above). It was incredibly difficult, and probably took about 10 minutes for the both of us to get our bags up the stairs (which were made of gravel and wood). And of course one we got to the top, we saw that the people inside could see us struggling with our bags. And then later on, we realized that if we had come from the other direction, we would have seen that there is a driveway that is MUCH easier to get up. Oops.
Our room - as you can probably tell, as soon as we got into the room, we both flopped down on the beds, exhausted.
The window in our room, and the view outside.
An old chest, and the stairs inside the B&B
The entrance to the B&B
We then decided to check out Fort William, and went to the High Street. Unfortunately, for as much planning as I did prior to the trip, I never considered the fact that we would be arriving in Fort William (a pretty small town) on a Sunday, and so the majority of the shops would be closed. We found one small souvenir shop that was open, and picked up a couple of souvenirs. We had dinner at The Grog & Gruel. Then we headed back to the B&B for the night - which involved climbing up a huge hill.
The hill that we had to climb to get back to the B&B - the pictures seriously do not do it justice.
Mailing some postcards
High street on a Sunday afternoon
Peekaboo!
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