Bucharest

Far too large suitcases almost drive flight attendants crazy. The overhead bins are stowed with much ado.

We land in Bucharest, or at least the Bucharest airport, which is as far from Bucharest as Schiphol is from Amsterdam.

I install the Bolt app and request a cab. We arrive at our downtown apartment in just over half an hour.

We check into our apartment entirely without human contact. We find the key for the front door in a key box and open the door via an app.

We walk into town with no particular destination, with A and P having come to our apartment. P has to go to Luca because he loves it. Luca is a chain serving coffee, and the famous Roumanian pretzels slash hotdogs are stuffed with meat or cheese and olives. I eat vegetarian, so it’s cheese and olives for me.

Shopping at Delhaize, which is called Mega here and is actually just an AH, including price level.

In the evening, we eat Mexican food at Amante, a few blocks away. The restaurant’s choice of loud dance music is strange.

Glasgow Central

I almost forgot to look up to get a good look at how this light could fall so beautifully into the hall of Glasgow Central station.

Vacation Photos

Kronkeling has the most fun blog about photography.

Kronkeling has a hard time photographing on vacation. I don’t struggle with it. I always photograph. Sometimes for the image, the beautiful picture, sometimes for the subject, so just the snapshot. I decide the goals afterward, but then I am different from Kronkeling.

Tips for your holiday pictures from Kronkeling are here.

Sometimes, there are miniseries, like when our car broke down, and we had to wait until a mechanic came to help us. I photographed all the trash in the parking lot.

Or, during vacations, photographing tourists.

Toeristen fotograferen

Or hotel rooms.

Hotelkamer
Hotelkamer
Hotelkamer
Hotelkamer
Hotelkamer

Or art on the wall.

Or numbers.

47
104

Nina Katchadourian is a super creative source of inspiration.

Bus

Arnol

Sconser

Uitzicht vanuit Sconser lodge hotel

Naar Ullapool

Eerst via Eilean Donan castle, een van oorsprong dertiende-eeuws kasteel, in de 20e eeuw gerestaureerd en opengesteld. Beroemd kasteel blijkt een enorme tourist trap. We zijn niet de enigen die van bezoek afzien en van de andere kant van de rivier wat foto’s maken van dit kasteel en de stroom mensen die het kasteel in gaan. Er zijn twee kamers van het kasteel te bezichtigen, sic!

Naar Achnasheen, The Midge Bite waar we eerder al waren en nogmaals een fijne cappuccino drinken. Tent doet zijn naam eer aan. En het is laagseizoen, qua midges en dus bites ook. In de auto termineren we nog een paar midgets voor ze hun slag kunnen slaan.

Verder langs Loch Maree, een driesterrenmeer volgens Michelin, en oud-Caledonisch bos. Een exclusiviteit die grotendeels achter bosschage langs der weg voor ons verborgen blijft.
Gairloch is leuk kustplaatsje waar we de benen streken en onze broodjes opeten.

Bij waterval Corrieshalloch Gorge National Nature Reserve er weer even uit om de benen te strekken en de hoogtevrees te bedwingen in een diepe kloof met hangbrug.

Dan naar Ullapool. Stadje in, klein maar aardig. Veel kleiner dan gedacht, nog kleiner dan Thurso. Maar ook leuker.

Eilean Donan castle
Eilean Donan castle
Gairloch
Gairloch
Corrieshalloch Gorge National Nature Reserve, Schotland
Corrieshalloch Gorge
Achnasheen, The Midge Bite
Achnasheen, The Midge Bite

Elgol

Via Broadford – shopping – to Elgol.
There, the locals walk with mosquito nets in front of their faces. We soon notice the reason: very small midgets. Fortunately not much trouble. We make a small along the coast over not very well-trodden paths.

To Torrin pools. Here, a river flows from the steep slope into Loch Slapin. The walk along the cascades of fast-flowing water is very pleasant. Some try to bathe in the small pools below the falls. The icy water almost hurts from shrinkage.

Back to Broadford. Walked to the pier. Not much more to see than breathtaking views and fishermen. Enough to do it for.

In the bar, Gabbro, we have a beer. Make plans for tomorrow.

Schotse Hooglander
Elgol

Thurso

Thurso strand