We left Hong Kong on the 30est of June. First stop Ipswich in south east England to visit Catrionas brother Alex, his wife Connie and son Reece. From there we went to London for one day to play tourists. As I was a London Virgin and very excited about that, of course we had to go to some of the sight seeing hot spots for the official; "Traktor on location" picture. So here it is, and I promise more will follow during our trip through the old continent.
The similarity is; nobody is really social during transportation. Neither in London nor in Hong Kong. 
One day in London is really too little, but is was a start and I hope that we can come back there to spend a lot more time later on in our lifes.After visiting Ipswich and the lovely market there Connie took uis for a ride in east anglia and so we came to the little romantic city of Southwold with a lovely beach at the north sea .
Many years ago the vikings also came across this place, and as usual they also terrorized the local people and even killed the the young upcoming king.They tied him to a tree and shot arrows through his head and body. In the local church this story was displayed, everywhere you looked there were carvings of small helmets with several arrows sticking out of them. Catriona told the older lady, who was a sort of caretaker in the church, that I was danish, she looked at me for a moment and then said: "Aren't you sorry for what you've done?" I didn't know what to answer because I didn't realy feel guilty in any way at all, and then I could only mumble: "not really, I wasn't there!" and then I walked out and headed for the Kings head pub for a pint of the local Broadside ale, hoping no one there would regognize where I came from and maybe take revenge.
Next stop Aberdeen in Scotland.
We arrived on the night where Bryan Innes won the Murray Golfclub Championship for the fifth time in a row, so the settings for a nice and comfortable stay in a cottage in Plockton in the Highlands was good. 
Saturday the fifth of July we packed up two cars in Aberdeen and left with the whole Innes family to head for the little village of Plockton on the north west coast of Scotland. One week we were going to stay there in a nice little cottage at the shore.
Just behind our cottage we could enjoy the sun settings and the view at the little natural harbor. Plockton is an ideal place for a base when exploring the west coast of Scotland and the isla of Skye. The village itself is also worth visiting as they have some nice restaurants and a cosey and busy little pub called the Plockton Inn. In the Highlands you can also meet the most beautyfull cows, the famous highland cattle. They look scary and dangerous with their big horns, but they are not really dangerous, they are calm and confident and nothing seems to stress them at all.
So just for you, I gathered all of my courage and with shaking legs I went to this fluffy one, standing around in the little hamlet of Durnish together with all his (or her) mates, causing some traffic jam as all tourists passing, just had to stop their cars for a photo for their holiday album. Another species you can meet in the highlands is the midgees. As they are not at all so pleasent and photogen as the highland cattle, in fact they are just anoying. I've never seen or heard of them before, but they can ruin the holiday. It is small biting flying creatures or beasties and they come in swarms and leave you with itsching red bites all over the body, so if you attend to visit the highlands you better take some insect repellent and some nets with you, to awoid these beasties.
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