We started the day by taking the bus back to the airport where we picked up our rental car. For the next 9 days we will be touring Scotland by auto. Our end goal for the day was Fort William, but first we stopped by Rosslyn Chapel. What an amazing place. It was built by the St. Clair family, monarch of this particular glenn and also Orkney. It was built in a gothic style and was meant as a place to both worship and be buried. (No photographs allowed from inside)
It seems as though every square inch of it is covered by carvings of saints, pagans, masonic and templar symbols, and fruits and vegetables. There are angels looking like Bigfoot, and maize and cactus plants that had not yet been seen in Europe. All this made Rosslyn Chapel a pretty interesting place to visit for the first 200 years of its ruins, but since Tom Hanks figured out what all these symbols meant in The DaVinci Code, its mystery has only grown. The last scene of that movie was shot here.
We drove on to Fort William through the Glencoe Valley. This is home to some of the most scenic country in Scotland and home to David Stirling, founder of Britain's first airborne commandos. Sandy kept saying "I feel like I have been dropped into Glenbogle" ( a reference to our favorite BBC series, Monarch of the Glen).
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