{"id":968,"date":"2010-08-12T10:42:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=968"},"modified":"2010-08-12T10:42:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:42:37","slug":"cruise-port-7-inverness-invergordon-loch-ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Port 7 – Inverness \/ Invergordon \/ Loch Ness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure that Princess would stop here, were it not for the infamous lake (loch) and even more infamous critter living somewhere in its waters.\u00c2\u00a0 The only problem was, I couldn’t get the lyrics to The Police song Synchronicity II<\/a> out of my head.<\/p>\n

We took the Princess tour to Loch Ness at this port.\u00c2\u00a0 After the obligatory long bus ride, we arrived at Urquhart Castle, supposedly where Nessie hangs out.\u00c2\u00a0 Compared to the other tours, though, this one was a little oppressive.\u00c2\u00a0 All the tour buses showed up at the same time – so thousands of passengers descended upon the castle at the same time.\u00c2\u00a0 Some parts of the castle (i.e. the main tower and infamous basement, where Nessie hangs out) were one set of narrow spiraling stairs – for going up and down.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, you can’t do anything about how the castle was built one thousand years ago, but you can do something about the crowds that all show up at the same time.<\/p>\n

We (well, Justin and Ethan and Dad) went all the way up the stairs.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem wasn’t getting up, it was coming down.\u00c2\u00a0 With railings only on one side, Justin really needed the rails to go down.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem was that people coming up hugged the rails, and Justin froze when he couldn’t hold the rails.\u00c2\u00a0 This pretty much stopped traffic movement in either direction, until someone above me, who saw what was going on, yelled down “let the kid have the rail!”<\/p>\n

Eventually we made it back down, and made a b-line to the souvenir stand and bus.\u00c2\u00a0 Pictures of our Loch Ness adventure<\/a> have been put up, enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure that Princess would stop here, were it not for the infamous lake (loch) and even more infamous critter living somewhere in its waters.\u00c2\u00a0 The only problem was, I couldn’t get the lyrics to The Police song Synchronicity II out of my head. We took the Princess tour to Loch Ness at this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t