The Gordon and Richmond Hotels
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A shot or two of Glenlivet will suit me fine
Showered when I woke up and it was sublime. Once Rebecca and I had settled our bill with the Rowan Tree proprietors, we were on our way. A taxi collected us at 9 and drove us to the Glenlivet Distillery (depositing our bags at the Richmond Hotel in Tomintoul afterwards). We went on a free tour of the distillery with our guide being a sweet, young …
Fort George
... defeat at Culloden, the playing of bagpipes was forbidden for the Highlanders, but it seems to have been all right for angels.
The battlements not only house the cannons, they provide an excellent viewing place for the Moray Firth's resident pod of bottle-nose dolphins, and we were lucky to see a few of them.
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Nairn and Culloden
Today, for the first time in more than two weeks, I took off my sweatshirt, put on my dark glasses, and walked on the beach in my shirtsleeves. When looking for a place to stay near Inverness, my eye had lit on the following sentence from our guidebook: "One of the driest and sunniest places in the whole of Scotland, Nairn, sixteen miles east of Inverness, began its days as a peaceful community ...
Mountain hike and whisky tour
... trampled as it was previously. There is a herd of reindeer running loose in the area after being reintroduced but we didn't see any, just droppings. The weather blew in with a blast of Arctic air and almost ice pellets. We tried to look at view at the summit but it wasn't that clear and the wind was blowing so hard. It is the 6th highest point in the UK. We posed quickly for a group shot at the ...
Mountain hike and whisky tour
... trampled as it was previously. There is a herd of reindeer running loose in the area after being reintroduced but we didn't see any, just droppings. The weather blew in with a blast of Arctic air and almost ice pellets. We tried to look at view at the summit but it wasn't that clear and the wind was blowing so hard. It is the 6th highest point in the UK. We posed quickly for a group shot at the ...
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Free parking
- Pets allowed