September 29, Carmichael

Feels more like January than September.   They say there might be snow next week!  According to locals everything stops when it snows so pray it waits until we are on our way home.
We are staying on the estate at Carmichael in Laundry Cottage (200 years old).  Its all very Monarch of the Glennish!  The phone line in our cottage is out so no internet.  That internet is illusive and is so convenient when you travel.   We really miss it.  This morning we are at the tea room on the estate having coffee and eating scones and using their wi/fi.

We reluctantly left Burnbrae's Thairn cottage and came to our new abode.  Will leave here Monday morning for Glasgow where we are staying at a Ramada near the airport.  The car gets turned in Monday too. 

The day we arrived here we visited New Lanark, a cotton mill, built in 1799.  Robert Owen began a utopian type town there for his workers.  Very progressive for the time.  Yesterday we went to Stirling Castle and Bannock Burn Battle Site.  Great historyBlogspot we will!  It was a very good day.  We are off to New Lanark today to visit the sites we missed the other day.  We have written up blogs for the days we missed, and as soon as we figure out how to transfer them to the Tomorrow is still up in the air.  Probabily won't have internet until we get to Glasglow now.