Start of the wedding weekend.
I was
heading up to pick up the forms so that we actually could get
married. Train was from Linlithgow to Edinburgh at 9.30 then 10:22
train to Pitllochry. I gave Fiona a call hoping she could meet me in
Haymarket for a quick hello but her train was arriving a bit later.
Next time. The train north though was fine. Going over the Forth road bridge and the loop around Queensferry
overlooking the firth of forth was a great way to signal the start of
the weekend.
Arrived to a sunny and dry day in
Pitlochry train station and walked up to hotel. The walk up to the hotel reminded me of what a great choice we made.. The meandering road up to the towering palace is
beautiful.
Got into the hotel and found that I had
been upgraded to a suite free of charge. Very kind. Although first
room when I tried to run a bath had a problem in that red rust came
out. They could not fixed up but was given another suite instead room
310 overlooking the manor house.
Headed down to the registrar office to
pick up form. Given two. First form fill in our names and sign.
Second form to print out letters in our signature. i.e. my signature
is GTO so in the second form I had to print G.T.O. Very specific but I trusted that the priest will have done it enough times to know what he was doing. Dropped the form of to the priest and he was very nice and told me how much he was looking forward to the big day.
Back to hotel for a nap, speech
practice and a bath (no rust) to chill. All very calm and relazing.
For dinner headed out to Old Mill down
in village as recommended by hotel. On way took a couple of panarama
shots. Turned out really well as shown below.
Had a beer and burger (of course) in
Old Mill. Very cool place. Will definitely head back again with Fiona
one day.
Back to hotel and found some awesome
cars up as part of convention. Porshe, Aston Martin and even a
McClaren.
More speech practice and bed
