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Jimmy's coastal walk : Day 32 - Picts and mermaids
... Hilton for short) is another Pictish stone, or rather, a replica, for the original is in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. A road sign near the villages indicates the direction of Ballintore and Hilton. This has led to people arriving in the village inquiring as to the whereabouts of the Hilton Hotel.
I was well catered for at the B&B with an excellent evening meal included for an additional £5.
Distance covered: 14.8 miles
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Fort George
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If you like guns, this is your place. Not only are there all sorts of cannons around the battlements, but there is a huge collection of old muskets in an arms museum inside. But we preferred the calm of the regimental chapel, whose central stained-glass window depicts not only St. George with his dragon, but a bagpipe-playing angel. ...
Nairn and Culloden
... to be the lawful kings; for others it was a principled refusal to accept Parliament's right to decide British royal succession. . . . Many were Scottish patriots who opposed the 1707 Act of Union. Some were motivated by intense family loyalties, while others were simply swept up in the adventure." We do not know Hector's reasons, but we do know that McAlisters fought at Culloden on the Jacobite side.
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Jimmy's coastal walk : day 30
... a major estuary. Of the four it was the least pleasant to walk across with only a narrow footpath and no barrier between me and the surging A9 traffic. A brisk wind didn't help. It wasn't a place to stop for photographs. I didn't know it at the time but the north end of the bridge notched up the 500 miles.
My hope was to cross the bridge and catch a bus back to Inverness which in turn would ...
Jimmy's coastal walk : Day 29
... beach was strewn with large boulders so it wasn't a simple stroll on hard sand. There was little sign of litter, even the plastic which often drifts ashore on our coastline. At Eathie a path led steeply up the cliff though woodland to the minor road along the spine of the Black Isle. On both sides the strong wind rippled waves across the fields of barley. Urged onward by the steady pressure of wind at my back I followed this ...
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