Back and Forth Across the Pond

We don't own a car. We currently live just a couple of miles from Steve's work, so we decided to forego a car for the time being. Steve bikes to and from work, and we have good bus service available. So when we rent a car like we did for our trip to Leeds and Preston, we try to take advantage of it. On our trip back home, we took an alternate route and did some Scottish sightseeing. Our first stop was to see The Kelpies, two thirty meter, 300 ton, steel statues representing the draft horses that brought the canals to life at their inception. The statues were built in 90 days in 2013, and are modeled after two Clydesdales named Duke and Baron. To learn more about The Kelpies and to see a time-lapse video of their construction, go  here. I had seen the 1:10 scale models of The Kelpies when they came to Inverness a few months ago, but I wasn't prepared for how huge the originals actually were. Look how small the people look! The Kelpies stand where the Forth ...