| Driving the Highlands and the Isle of Skye (Photo Post) |
 Driving the Highlands and the Isle of Skye (Photo Post)
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Oct. 24th, 2009 @ 06:22 pm 
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So, the Highlands to the west are really quite phenomenally beautiful.
An interesting thing about this following one: The road tunnel is all of one lane through.
This is taken from the inner courtyard of Eileen Donan Castle:
Bogland on the Isle of Skye:
An inlet I thought was beautiful:
Sunset on the Isle of Skye:
And finally, at dusk, the Skye sky eats the mountains:
A few more pictures are in the set here.
Interesting thing: they have two of the dudes from Dragon's Den on the Top Gear I'm watching. One of them, Peter Jones, has taken an interesting approach to being tremendously rich and still wanting his children to make something of their lives: A trust fund, rather than direct inheritance, which pays them an amount equal to their earnings that year.
Unless they do something worthy but underpaid, like nursing, in which case it triples or quadruples their income.
I don't know anything else about this guy to speak of, but I think he's probably a better parent than a lot of mega-rich folk.
He also apparently managed to impress the Stig as a driver.
Meanwhile - and this sort of thing is why I watch Top Gear occasionally - they're setting up a hunt - as in, a foxhunt - wherein the prey is Jeremy Clarkson driving a small off-road car.
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The pictures are amazing, and what a clever idea for a trust!
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October 27th, 2009 09:47 pm (UTC) |
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oh WOW WOW WOW
eta, cause my fingers got ahead of my words
the trust fund idea sounds faboo.
Edited 2009-10-27 09:48 pm (UTC)
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