Looking through the photos I realised I'm really missing Scotland. It's six years since I was last there on holiday, which is where most of the photos came from. I was very aware that we were touring 'Grouse and Partridge' country and the innovation of a brand new digital camera meant that I photographed anything and everything I thought might be useful as a memory-jogger. So I thought I'd share some of them here as well as on Pinterest - kind of a 'virtual tour'!
I thought we'd start with Hamish's 'home' village: the place where Nancy and Bessie ran the tea shop. When we arrived in Luss on the banks of Loch Lomond I knew it was the place I'd been describing. I could imagine the Bonnie bumping down these roads with Partridge waving from the side car! The gate of the church in Luss eventually appeared as the wee village church at the end of Scotch Pine. I liked the shadows on the wall and the shade - it was actually a really sunny day when I took this, very warm and summery. We'd just had tea (and cake!) in a coffee shop which was very much the way I'd imagined The Pear Tree Cottage tea rooms, complete with (very tasteful!) tartan crockery.
This is the view looking back up into the village from Loch Lomond and the church graveyard (where Bessie is buried) is below: you can see the Loch clearly at the back and the hills beyond it. What a spot for a final resting place!
It's a very small village and yet within ten minutes of arriving, I'd bumped into someone I work with - It's that sort of place. 
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