A wee tour of Scotland

"Scotland is lovely, you will like it there." This is what many of my friends told me when I mentioned I was planning to explore Scotland. They were not wrong I did love it there.
I arrived in Edinburgh, had a day to look around. I climbed to the top of Arthur's Seat for panoramic views across the city. Then I caught up with my mates Sandy and Alyce from my Topdeck trip and stayed with them for the night.
Early Tuesday morning I walked into town and met my new tour mates who I was to spend the next four days with. It was a random mix, seven Taiwanese girls, two Spanish, an Indian, a Kiwi, an Italian, myself and two other Aussies. We left Edinburgh and began our wee (Scottish for small) tour of Scotland.
On the first day we drove towards Loch Ness, stopping a few times to learn some of the Scottish history. We spotted some salmon jumping up a waterfall on one of our walks and then at the end of the day I went for a swim in Loch Ness. There was no sign of any monster but the water was surprisingly quite warm. We also got our first taste of local Scottish whisky, something the Scots love and their whisky is World reknowned.
Our second and third days were spent on the Isle of Skye where I tasted fresh scallops caught straight from a Loch. We also climbed a mountain to see a rock formation known as the Old Man of Storr. We also stopped to take photos of some Heeland Coos (Highland Cows). I also learnt the process of making whisky at the Tallisker Distillery.
We rode the ferry from Armadale to Mallaig to get back on the mainland and entered the Highlands. We walked for about thirty minutes to a waterfall lookout near Fort William only to get there and turn around and head back straight away because we were being bitten by Midgies. Midgies are tiny mosquito like insects that suck your blood.
Our final night was spent on a Loch in the middle of nowhere where we cooked up a big meal with haggis for the whole group. On our final day back to Edinburgh we learnt the stories of Rob Roy and Robert the Bruce a couple of Scottish heroes. On arrival into Edinburgh I had a chance to take a quick walk through the town which was now full of people in interesting costumes performing in the streets as part of the Fringe Festival.
I stayed a couple of nights in Glasgow before returning to Edinburgh. I did not really do a lot on my day in Glasgow just wandered around the shops. I was exhausted after my trip.