Trip to Montrose to visit my pal Kerry

Louis and I headed off this past Friday to visit my friend Kerry, who lives in Montrose, which is in Angus north of us, but not as far North as Aberdeen or Inverness. It's a lovely port town on the North Sea. I drove up through Dundee, Arbroath, then into Montrose. Dundee is famous for technological discoveries, and a lot of IT development. Arbroath is where the Scots claim the US declaration of independence was 'copied' from the The Declaration of Arbroath (sometimes called the Declaration of Independence) was Scotland's response to the excommunication. It is one of the great icons of Scotland and is in the form of a letter (in Latin) to the Pope from eight earls and 31 barons of Scotland asking him in rousing terms to acknowledge Scotland as an independent nation and to reject the claims of the English king. The Declaration was ahead of its time as it sets out that the king (previously regarded as appointed by God) could be driven out if he did not uphold the freedom of the country.

"For so long as there shall but one hundred of us remain alive we will never give consent to subject ourselves to the dominion of the English. For it is not glory, it is not riches, neither is it honours, but it is liberty alone that we fight and contend for, which no honest man will lose but with his life."

We took a fantastic walk at Lunan Bay on Saturday, saw the remnants of the cliffside Red Castle. It was unseasonably warm and we had a blast. My other pal Steve King (Kingy) came up to, so we just had dinner and then hung out at Ker's house.... which we all discussed and we think it's haunted, considering it was built in the 1700's.