This is the street of apartment buildings we live in. Blackness avenue was at one time very high class living.Our flat is on the third floor up. It is 40 steps to climb and Elder Watson is so happy our new little cottage is on the ground floor.

I thought you would find this interesting. It is a cobblestone street underneath the asphalt that is made from mahogony cobbles to keep the noise down during the late 1800s, early 1900s. The street runs infront of a once posh hotel in Dundee, the Tay Hotel. It is now gone to ruin.

Elder Watson was given this "Sponge Bob Square Pants" birthday cake by the Redford family. They surprised us after our "teach" with them with it and a nice little dinner. He received many cards and remembrances from the members and his family. Thanks everyone.

This is the little town of Golspie on the way up the coast to Thurso. We stopped at this park to eat our sack lunch on the picnic table. It was so chilly we got back in the car to eat. We saw many rainbows on the way up due to being so close to the North sea and all the mists that roll and rise.

This is the wind farm outside Thurso. You can see how flat this terrain is compared to the places we have been before. It is like the prairie states in the U.S.A., except instead of grass, it is peat.

This is the "Royal Hotel" in Thurso where we stayed while finding our place to live. It was built in the 1850s. For breakfast we ate the traditional Scottish breakfast of sausages, bacon, roasted tomatoes, mushrooms, eggs, baked beans and potatoe scone.

October 2008

This is a scene of the beach at Thurso. It was a gray day.