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Jimmy's coastal walk : Day 32 - Picts and mermaids
This was the first of two days on the Fearn peninsula. It's a sort of T-shaped peninsula running south-west to north-east. The south-western part is wider and hillier, centred on Nigg and it was this section I covered today.
John dropped me back to Arabella at 8.45am. I knew that it would be an easy day because my final destination was fixed at a B&B at Ballintore, about 14 miles away.
The first part of the walk was along the B 9175 to Nigg ...
Fort George
Following the Battle of Culloden, the English wanted to make sure that there would be no more Jacobite Risings, so in 1747 they began the building of an enormous fort on a promontory between Nairn and Inverness. One cannot miss King George II's coat of arms proudly displayed on its entrance gate.The fort still serves as a barracks for British ...
Nairn and Culloden
... and farmers."
We think we have found the best place to stay in Nairn, the guest house Invernairne, perched on a bluff over Moray Firth, with a magnificent view of the sea, a beautiful garden, and a pathway down to what seems like an endless beach. The picture to the left was taken from our bedroom window: the one below on the beach, just as the tide was beginning to come in.
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Jimmy's coastal walk : day 30
... get the 1610 bus back to Edinburgh. As I headed north from the bridge there were no bus stops in sight and the A9 was not a place to hail a passing bus. I had to let the one I wanted whiz by and walk on to the first turn-off which led me into the village of Evanton. I sat in the sun there for half an hour until the next bus which delivered me to Inverness bus station at....1614. Then I had the ...
Jimmy's coastal walk : Day 29
... the northern tip of the peninsula and the mouth of Cromarty Firth. The entrance is guarded by steep cliffs on either side. They are called the Sutors, suggesting a resemblance to shoemakers (souters) at their lasts. From the viewpoint a steep path led down to the water's edge and thence to the village of Cromarty. Rounding the corner to the harbour I felt the full force of a gale blowing up the firth. The ferry to Nigg had ...
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