点评:Visited Brodie castle at lunchtime but couldn't get a tour until 3.30. Drove into Nairn but was unable to get any lunch as one restaurant we went to had run out of half the menu, others closed or had no space. Returned to the castle and mentioned to lady at reception that we would like some food she said both cafes would be serving hot food and salads for another 30 minutes and advised us not to go to the cafe near the reception but to the one near the castle where our tour started. So we did. It was almost empty inside. At the counter we tried to order and was told they stopped serving at 2.30. I politely pointed out it was 2.10. The young woman behind the counter wouldn't make eye contact and said rudely all we could have was what was on display and hadn't been sold. So we had cold sausage rolls. It was so different from all the other visitor attractions we had visited in Scotland where people were welcoming and friendly. The 2 members of staff talked loudly to each other but apart from their initial refusal to sell us anything from the menu never said a word to us and when we said goodbye ignored us. It soured our last day in Scotland. I understand that they couldn't be bothered to make a sandwich or salad at the end of their shift, although it was pretty early to be packing up and they could have been polite about it. As we had time to kill we walked down to the river, there was a small sign saying for environmental reasons you couldn't walk there. Several people hadn't seen the sign and walked there anyway and we felt the sign should have been more prominent and placed before you made the walk down to it . The tour was interesting although we found out later that the story about the last owner giving the estate to NTS on condition that they kept the contents complete was not the whole truth. In fact he sold them the estate, which ignited a family feud and if you look it up it's a rather sad story.
翻译:中午去了布罗迪城堡,但直到下午3点半才有导览团。开车去了内恩,却没找到地方吃午饭,我们去的一家餐厅一半的菜都卖完了,其他几家要么关门了,要么没位子。回到城堡后,我们跟接待处的女士说想吃点东西,她说两家咖啡馆还有30分钟会供应热食和沙拉,建议我们不要去接待处附近的咖啡馆,而是去城堡附近那家,也就是我们导览团的出发点。于是我们去了那家咖啡馆。里面几乎空无一人。我们在柜台点餐,却被告知他们2点半就停止供应了。我礼貌地指出现在是2点10分。柜台后面的年轻女士连看都不看我一眼,态度很差地说我们只能吃摆在外面没卖出去的东西。所以我们只好吃了冷香肠卷。这跟我们之前在苏格兰其他景点的经历截然不同,那里的人们热情友好。两位工作人员大声交谈,除了一开始拒绝向我们推销菜单上的任何东西之外,他们之后就再也没跟我们说过一句话,我们道别时更是置之不理。这让我们在苏格兰的最后一天变得非常糟糕。我理解他们下班时懒得做三明治或沙拉,虽然当时离收拾东西的时间还早,他们本可以礼貌一些。因为还有时间,我们就走到河边,那里有个小牌子,上面写着出于环保原因禁止通行。好几个人都没看到牌子就走了过去,我们觉得牌子应该更显眼一些,放在走到河边之前就应该放好。参观过程很有趣,不过我们后来发现,关于上一任庄园主将庄园捐赠给苏格兰国家信托基金会(NTS)并要求他们保留所有藏品的说法并非全部真相。事实上,他把庄园卖给了NTS,这引发了一场家族纷争,如果你去查一下,会发现这是一个相当悲惨的故事。