Are there sheep? Granite peaks and rolling moors dotted with heather? Lots of green in every view? Rugged coastline and amazing golf courses? Pleasant, smiling folk with burry accents? It must be the astounding Scotland!. It's small enough that you can loop around the whole country in about a week, although the open spaces, the mountains, glens, lochs, and pints of Guinness are of mythic proportions. Scotland is all about scenery and history. The main roads can get quite crowded in high season - but some of the area’s most attractive features can be found on the secondary roads. Castle ruins, waterfalls plunging into ocean, strips of deserted, white, sandy beach, gigantic cliffs cloaked in purple heather, deep dark lochs, mist-covered, green craggy peaks, and sheep and more sheep - it seemed that every turn in the road might turn up a new scene of wonder. But the real revelation was the people. The Scots are without doubt ones of the friendliest, most hospitable and gracious people I've ever encountered.