Leanach Farm
Travel Blogs from Inverness
A little closer to home - Inverness and Beauly
... centre at 'top of the High Street'. Walked through the Victoria Market - found some more cross stitch kits for Cheryl. Paid princely sum of $1.50 for parking and headed back to Beauly in fading afternoon light. Finally got a chance to do a walk through Beauly. Highlight is the old priory and church grounds. Looked over the River Beauly where annual fishing rights cost $50 000 and a limit of ten day licences are $10 each and sold on ...
A trek across the Highlands to the Isle of Skye
... my winter clothes on. Shower and then tea preparation while enjoying a few drinks (Jameson and Metaxa). Enjoyed our fresh fish, scallops and Scottish prawns (look more like tiny crayfish) with vegetables followed by apple pie. Not quite 'Masterchef' but quite adequate for an evening meal. Some more enjoyable TV before bed. Expecting more bad weather tomorrow - more heavy rain - could be up to a frightening "2 inches" ! Plan to stay closer to home as a ...
The Highlands
... rain, sunshine, overcast skies or even snow at some points! Although Scotland is a small country when you compare it to Canada, the temperatures vary just the same as they do back home.
After a bit of a drive we stopped once we reached the area of Glencoe. This is an area of mountain range which just recently has been covered in snow. The mountains are quite beautiful, just as they appear in movies. We stopped for a few photo ops, then continued on our way. We stopped in ...
Jimmy's coastal walk : day 34
... high and I was soon forced up off the beach and on to an adjacent grassy bank. Here the grass was long and tussocky and wet so I retreated to a minor road which led me into Dornoch. Here I experienced the only serious rain of the day, a heavy shower lasting about fifteen minutes. I was lucky with the weather as there were heavy showers on the horizon. As the tide subsided I was able to walk along the beach to ...
Hunting Nessie
... made the most of it. Did a little shopping had some food at a pub but no museums or anything like that. That night while we were having dinner, the staff came around saying were having a quiz night so we decided to stay and have a go. We ended up coming last (all the teams had about 6 people so we didn't feel to bad) but we still had a fun time and if we come across another one we will give it ago and hopefully do better.
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