An Early Start

I’ve been researching one of our ideas for making a living.  If we can tap into Scotland’s tourism market, we could perhaps set up a business that delivers a decent income whilst being something we like doing.   We have casually thrown the idea of a café around for the past few years, and recently realised that there are key tourist destinations in Scotland that we think could really do with having a ‘good’ café.  As businesses ideas go its no world beater, but that's irrelevant.  

We have a few locations in mind, and we now need to visit the areas to check our assumptions and impressions.  So we’re going to spend about 5 days in Scotland next week.  Actually, I stole away from my wife a few days early to enjoy the snowy surroundings, and I’m currently supping a beer in a fantastic place called The Oak Tree Inn near Loch Lomond.  On my way here I stopped to take some photos at Stirling. It’s a lovely place from what I saw, and definitely worth more time than I had.  Here are some of the photos I took there.  I like the panorama shot of the mountains north of Stirling Castle.  Those blues are all real!  The statue is Rob Roy.  Strangely, I did sense strong vibrations of Scottish history and pride emanating from the statue, but the angle of my photo has unfortunately made him look like an angry umpa-lumpa.