Germans Making Haggis - Part 2

For your viewing pleasure, a few pics:

The beach:


On a walk:


Creepiest whiskey distillery in the world:


More beach:


Inside of our cottage (a mess as we had just arrived!)


As for part 2, it's been quite a journey since the library this afternoon. For the night, we are actually doing something called Couchsurfing. Some find it suspicious, but as far as I have heard of others' experiences, it's a safe network of places to stay while you are traveling. You go onto the couchsurfing website and find someone in the area where you need a place to stay, look over their profile, you message back and forth to see if you can work something out. I think it might be safer than it sounds! The person has to be verified and you read reviews others have written about them (if it were me, I wouldn't stay anywhere without verification and reviews). So we've found a friend who will let us stay. He's a German living in Scotland, and he actually has his own touring business here in Scotland. There are two German ladies staying here as well who are paying to take his tours. For the paid tour, you stay in his house, he cooks for you, and takes you out on daytrips around Scotland as long as you stay.

So we arrived here this afternoon - he lives 6 miles outside of Elgin, which is a city in Scotland. He owns a little farmhouse, and he's fascinated with Native American culture, so he also has a tipi, which we are staying in for the night. It's very cozy with sheepskin blankets! When we arrived, he was very nice. He showed us around the tipi and the house, and then made us coffee as well. He asked if we wanted a traditional Scottish dinner and I said yes, while Seth seemed a little hesitant! He made us haggis, which if you don't know what that is, you ought to look it up. We also had tatties (boiled potatoes) with steamed broccoli. It was delicious. We ate with the two German ladies, so it was German on one side of the table, English on the other, with our host in the middle translating. It was a wonderful night. After that, he took us down to the beach for the wonderful sunset. He then showed us this weird New Age village that the town is now famous for, called the Findhorn Foundation.

Either way, it's been a great night and we are tucked into the tipi with WiFi and feeling pretty happy. We miss everyone - thank you for all your prayers!

To explain the title of part 1, we were just hanging out at the cottage two nights ago and on BBC radio there was a woman speaking German with a Scottish accent. What?? It was so weird.