Palace Hotel Inverness

... to see Sueno's Stone, a pictish stone from the 9th or 10th century. A few pictures later and we're off to Spynie Castle/Palace. It dates from the 12th century and is the rubble of the Bishopric of Moray. It's quite large, and very impressive. It was ...

... and further north towards Inverness the highways became two lane roads with no good lighting over them.  Luckily we arrived in Inverness quicker than expected, since Scotland is a lot smaller than it looks on a map, so we headed to the southwest ...

... the Royal Mile, we returned to Osbourne to get our luggage before heading to Waverly Station to catch the 1.36pm train to Inverness, the much-looked-forward capital of the Scottish Highlands !! Hmm..we wonder whether the train will leave on time again? ...

... get some tea before going back to the room so we went to a place called the Kitchen where we had a window view of a flood light Inverness Castle and Ness river the meal was fantastic and the specialty was sea food . Next Day we got up early again and got ...

... in Inverurie. It was kind of weird in that it was in the middle of a neighborhood. On Wednesday, we headed back towards Inverness and made alot of stops. We saw Castle Fraser, Kildrummy Castle, the Grampion Transport Center, St. Mary's Kirk and ...

... ." After lunch we walked around Kensington Gardens/Park and stumbled upon the Princess Diana Foundation Children's Playground near the Inverness Terrace Gate in the extreme NW corner of the park along Bayswater Road. WOW! There are many different ...

... of Mansfield, the Murray family. Our next stop was Pitlochry which is an attractive town with heaps of Highland shops. We then drove on to Inverness which we did not stop at. It is now much bigger than the town we had visited 28 years ago. Our aim was to ...

... too claustrophobic and commandeered John’s camera to get a mug shot as he emerges. Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City?  In Inverness we have difficulty keeping up with the hotels which change their name.  To most of us the Ramada Jarvis is still ...

... and then when we approached Aviemore a down pour. 21st July The weather was still rainy so we thought we’d go into Inverness and wander around.  I showed them Eastgate the shopping centre, which was great as it was out of the weather!  We ...

... castle, a pretty impressive way for a city to greet you. A great little train journey somewhat easier than the coach from Inverness to London which I currently write upon. The train station is centrally located in the City, almost exactly, making all of ...

... and caught the bus back to the hotel. Rain continued all afternoon and we heard on the news that flooding was causing problems in Inverness, our next destination. Called ahead to our B&B in Inverness to make sure we could get there. We were told it was no ...

... as he said it, we remembered we must have stopped here when we were last in Scotland in 2006 and drove from St. Andrews' to Inverness, stopping off for lunch in Pitlochry.      The weather was wet the entire day and never let up until ...

... it and the surrounding bare hills had even a few vestiges of snow on them. Checked out the great Caledonian Canal which joins Inverness, on the North Sea, with Fort William on the Atlantic Ocean and in a great 18th century engineering feat drops down ...

... in 4 hours. Imagine if the UK ever gets high speed trains of this ilk, you would be able to travel from London to Inverness in around 2hrs 15min! I don’t know if it’s just where we were taken but clothes shops and electrical items ...

... ride to Edinburgh.  We were there a little early so I went to the train information window and got our itineraries through Inverness printed out so we knew which trains to catch and the schedule.  We climbed onboard a VERY crowded train.  ...

... Explorer the error messages went away. I'm still trying to find a place in northern Scotland as all the B&B's in Inverness are booked.   BY 2 PM I decided to go tour London. It was raining again. I saw Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly ...

... three days more than the rest of his life. What's up with that? Our excursion today took us southeast on A9 from Inverness with our first stop at the Culloden Battlefield. This battle was the final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite Rising and took place ...

... that this city should have the title of the Windy City. It is as far north as Alaska and everybit as cold and very windy. Inverness, Scotland is as far north as Siberia. We expected it to be cooler, but not so windy. Those fellas in the kilts must surely ...

... gates and buildings. Here, wealth is discreet and power is self contained - almost self conscious? Finally driven off the airport to fly to Inverness. Nostalgia brings a brief moment of regret that I hadn't booked more time here. Perhaps one ...