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Jimmy's coastal walk : Day 32 - Picts and mermaids
... in the area. These date from the 8th century or earlier at a time when the Picts were converting to Christianity. The Nigg stone is normally housed in the old Nigg parish church but unfortunately had been removed for repair.
After 7 miles or so on a minor road I came back to the coast at Shandwick, one of three settlements which run together and are collectively known as the Seaboard Villages. At the top of the hill above the village I almost ...
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 as we drove through the surrounding countryside, we saw lots of grain waiting to be harvested. At the distilleries in Islay we had learned that most of their barley comes from this region.
In the afternoon we drove to Culloden Battlefield, where the last full-scale battle on British soil was fought on April 16, 1746, resulting in the definitive defeat of the Jacobite Rising. The ...
Jimmy's coastal walk : day 30
... that Proclaimers' song began to echo in my head.
The first point of interest was a triangulation pillar at the side of the road (perhaps that's a measure of how interesting a day it was, or maybe it's just a geographer's thing) - these are usually found on mountain summits. This one a mere 4 metres above sea level. Soon I came to the hamlet of Jemimaville. What a great name! - named after the ...
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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