Three Romanian Haystacks
Driving across the Romania countryside there are many haystacks in the wide open fields, people’s yards and even in the apple orchards. This is the winter food for the sheep, cattle and dairy cows. The plastic tarp on top is supposed to help protect the stack from rain and snow. However, they never seemed to be very large nor tied into place very well, so apparently this protection is optional.
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Our most northern stop in the UK was Inverness, Scotland. There was nothing specific from a photographic or tourism viewpoint that brought us here. We used Inverness as a base to drive even further north into the Highlands and dine in the town of Tongue. Of course we also wanted to explore Loch Ness as another one of those tourist ‘must-see’ places. The above photo was taken from a lunch spot we discovered on the much less touristy east side of Loch Ness. On the west side, restaurants seem to be around every curve in the road, but on this side, we were just about to give up on finding any restaurant when we found a real gem with the view above.
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