I will soon be going to Scotland for a week with my kids. We will be staying by Loch Ness in a, I think, log cabin. It's on the quieter side of the Loch which can only be reached by the tiniest of winding lanes which was I think built as a military road after the Jacobite rebellion. Where we are staying is near to Boleskine House, which fans of the occult will know is the house of the self styled 'Most Evil man in England'
Woo scary!!!!!
Who said 
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”
And
"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
Two extremely distateful quotes but the latter view was very prevalent at the turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. Raskolnikov expresses it in 'Crime and Punishment' as does D H Lawrence and of course it is a central plank of Fascism.
I've booked us in for two activities
Weaselling. This sounds really great, basically you get to the foot of a mountainside which is covered in huge boulders and then climb and tunnel you way to the top of the slope, wearing of a weasel suit is an optional extra.
The second activity is gorge swimming, basically scrambling up a gorge while getting extremely wet. Luckily, as I can swim as well as a cat, you have a bouyancy aid. Jumping of thirty foot drops is apparently optional, though I ought to check the small print on that!
We'll keep an eye out for Nessie but sadly I have lost my childhood faith in her existance. I will not, however, be putting this to the test by swimming in the Loch as after all I may be wrong and would not like to achieve my five minutes of fame being devoured by a large and angry plesiosaur!
This will be my first holiday without my wife and I am sure it will be a bitter sweet time. But I hope I can give the children a good time to remember.
menhir
Loch Ness is quite an attractive place to be though I hear from those in the know that the loch is a bit on the cold side (animoles and fascists apart), for a splash.
There are many little windy track roads all over the Highlands allegedly built for one army or another and they are all quite interesting to follow. Present day armies tend to commandeer track roads and at some very much later date do a repair just before they need to vandalise them again. We see it happening within a few miles of where I live when, it is advisable not to travel on pot holed, collapsed roads for a while. The residents have to tolerate it and that's when your unpopular 4 x 4 vehicles come into their own or the use of regular tractor drives up straths and the like, take over.
Make sure you have some warm clothing, the weather is a bit wet, windy and variable,though I think the Loch Ness area will be a few degrees warmer than where I am.
Have a great holiday!