Trip report: Scottish highlands
Friday Seemingly a rare thing, but I don’t have to be on a customer site this week. So I am working from home. In these situations I tend to start work at 05:00, effectively working middle-eastern ...
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Tuesday
We headed north east towards Inverness. On the way passing the site of the Battle of Culloden, then driving through the centre of Inverness, which was extremely quiet (certainly compared to southern England).
From there we joined the other end of the Great Glen, passing Telford’s locks at this end and heading south west back in the direction of Fort William along the north shore of Lock Ness.
Sally had always wanted to visit one of those castles on the shores of a loch, and having turned north east from Fort William instead of north West towards Skye we were missing a major one. So we stopped at Castle Urquhart.
Then on to visit a pretty gorge.
We continued south west to the end of Loch Ness, where we crossed another set of Telford’s locks, this time having to wait while they opened the swing bridge to let a couple of yachts through.
We left all the other traffic and turn around to head back in the direction of Inverness, but along the south shore of the loch.
This proved a good decision as the countryside is completely different and spectacular. It is also very quiet, unlike the north shore.
Camping and Caravanning Club had opened a brand new campground on the shores of the loch just two months ago, so we headed for that.
Since it was only 16:00 we locked the camper and walked back up the steep hill to see the gorge that runs down it. There is a very nice waterfall, but the picture didn’t come out, so you’ll just have to take my word.
Stay tuned for more…
We headed north east towards Inverness. On the way passing the site of the Battle of Culloden, then driving through the centre of Inverness, which was extremely quiet (certainly compared to southern England).
From there we joined the other end of the Great Glen, passing Telford’s locks at this end and heading south west back in the direction of Fort William along the north shore of Lock Ness.
Sally had always wanted to visit one of those castles on the shores of a loch, and having turned north east from Fort William instead of north West towards Skye we were missing a major one. So we stopped at Castle Urquhart.
Then on to visit a pretty gorge.
We continued south west to the end of Loch Ness, where we crossed another set of Telford’s locks, this time having to wait while they opened the swing bridge to let a couple of yachts through.
We left all the other traffic and turn around to head back in the direction of Inverness, but along the south shore of the loch.
This proved a good decision as the countryside is completely different and spectacular. It is also very quiet, unlike the north shore.
Camping and Caravanning Club had opened a brand new campground on the shores of the loch just two months ago, so we headed for that.
Since it was only 16:00 we locked the camper and walked back up the steep hill to see the gorge that runs down it. There is a very nice waterfall, but the picture didn’t come out, so you’ll just have to take my word.
Stay tuned for more…
