Urquhart Castle Drumnadrochit

After Nairn, we followed the famous Loch Ness down in our hunt to find the even more famous 'Nessie!' Well we found him so everyone stop looking for him..he's over-rated anyway!
We stopped off at the Urquhart Castle for lunch and some happy snaps on the camera.
Later that afternoon we arrived in Fort Augustus where we stayed in the …

School work morning

Jacobite Cruises - Freedom
Loch Ness and Urquart Castle

Dinner at McGonnagalls

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Peggy has solved the mystery of Loch Ness. Nessie is a sturgeon. More on that in a minute though...

Unfortunately, Tuesday dawned extremely overcast with low clouds. We considered taking in the Cairngorm Mountain Railway anyway but decided that the view that morning likely wouldn't be worth the detour. Instead, we pushed on around …

... was extremely choppy (Paul started to look a little green round the gills), yet we got awesome views and photos of the Urquhart castle and ruins. Despite the sonar imagery and the photo the skipper Edwards claimed to have taken back in 1994 that was of ...

... my excuses and leaving, I headed back to the hostel to join some of the others on a midnight (almost) ghost hunting expedition to Urquhart Castle.  We went down there, in the dark, climbed over the fence, and went right down to the castle which was ...

... . Hope that helps!! Before hunkering down for more serious blogwork at Robert and Linda's lovely home, we were whisked off to Urquhart Castle to see the ruins.  The Castle dates from about 1250 and has a history that reflects the struggle which ...

... Laide and then be transferred back to "Drum", but I decided not to do the hike as I really wanted to spend time at Urquhart Castle on the shore of Loch Ness, a couple of miles away.  After notifying my taxi service about the cancellation, I walked ...

... dogs sitting with their people, generally very well behaved.  We went to the Loch Ness Exhibition Centre and to Urquhart Castle.  The evidence seems pretty unfavorable for an actual monster, but you can see how people might imagine stuff in ...

... the castle with a Pictish (people predating the Celts in Scotland) fort recorded there around 580 AD by Christian missionaries. Urquhart Castle was strategically important so it was involved in a lot of military action between the 13th and 17th ...

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