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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
... in the good sunlight. Heading eastward with the sun light quickly fading despite it being only 15.00. Called in for a few groceries at Drumnadrochit and then drove home in twilight via Cannich - the other end of the circuit the lodge is located on. Home just on dark. Cold walk to take rubbish to communal wheelie bins for collection tomorrow. Car showed 2° when we pulled up. Got log fire going and then Cheryl thankfully cut my hair - bit cold ...
Nessie
... and where a lot of Nessie sighting have occurred . The castle is awesome. We wander around the ruins taking in the history of the place and enjoying the ability to just walk around a castle at seems to be untouched for hundreds of years. The kids love it. We loved it. We climb to the top and look out over Loch Ness to try a catch a glimpse of Nessie but alas she wasn't too be seen. We thought we might have spotted her but it was only a flock of ducks. We could have ...
Hunting Nessie
... and changed familys during its time due to waring clans until it eventually fell to ruin. It wasn't a big military castle for kings due to its remotness, more of a getaway to hide out.
On the way back we drove along the eastern side of the loch because the guy we hired the car said tourists rarely drive on that side and is much prettier and I'm glad we took hes advise because it was definetly much more ...