Scotland Day 14: Ewww Tourists

 We always joke semi-hypocritically that tourists are the absolute worst. Any time there's someone driving slow or being loud in a public setting we blame the "stupid tourists" and shake our fist at them. *note: today I accidentally cut a guy off in a roundabout because they roundabout in the wrong direction and I was in the wrong lane. I'm very aware I'm the tourist we yell at*

Which elegantly leads us to Eileen Donan Castle. It's the castle on all the postcards and everybody's Insta. We parked, took a pic and left because it was a zoo of "stupid tourists"

I don't recommend going there, there are plenty of prettier places here. Speaking of which, on the way to our next Airbnb we found a cool church called St. Mary and St. Finnan. I didn't get any great pics of the surroundings but this church very much had the best view in the area.

Weirdly, the parking in front of the church was closed for an event so we ended up parking down the hill in a big carpark with a visitor center. Turns out our little trip to a pretty church is next to a huge Potter-head (as in Harry) attraction. 

It's the Harry Potter train! Since we randomly came upon this place we missed the train by 10 minutes but that was probably good because a couple hundred stupid tourists were leaving as we arrived. It was still really pretty and an impressive bit of engineering.

We stopped in Oban (seafood capitol of Scotland) for dinner. There's a few places right by the harbor, we got there as they were unloading some boats:

For a reasonable price we got the seafood platter for two which included huge crab claws, a whole lobster, more mussels than we could eat, cubed crab, langoustines, various shrimp, a fillet of smoked fish, pickled herring, calamari, and a few things to dip it all in. It was amazing and way too much to eat!

We ended the day at our Airbnb with a soak in a hot tub. The listing said it was 'available for a small fee' which I figured meant we could just pay a few pounds and use it for our whole stay. It turns out it was an hourly rental thing and you had to message the host every time to set it up, and it was also just a cheap inflatable tub with not jets. Big disappointment, but still relaxing for an hour.