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Our ferry to Orkney wasn't until the evening, so we spent the the day visiting various north-easterly landmarks. Our first port of call was the most northerly point in mainland Britain - Dunnet Head. This is a beautiful, peaceful spot with a fantastic 360 degree panorama of the area - quite unlike … [Read more...]
On our route up the A9/A99, we called in at the fishing village of Lybster, but probably wouldn't recommend this. It's another village that seems to have suffered from the decline of the fishing industry and does not really have much to offer visitors, although the public toilets were clean and open … [Read more...]
We were now coming to one of the parts of the trip I'd been particularly looking forward to - travelling up the Sutherland and Caithness coasts to the far north east of Scotland. Before this, however, we took a scenic drive around the Black Isle, which was good in itself. Fortrose has the ruins … [Read more...]
We started our journey along the Moray coast at Banff, an attractive, stone-built seaside town. (Due to time constraints, we didn't explore the eastern part of this area - north of Aberdeen or east of Banff ) Venturing west through Portsoy, Cullen and Portknockie and onwards around Spey Bay to … [Read more...]
Our previous day's drive had skirted the eastern side of the Cairngorms National Park. We started the day by continuing the loop around the northern side of the park to the Cairngorm Mountain Railway. Cairn Gorm is the sixth-highest mountain in the UK at 1,245m. In the interests of conservation, … [Read more...]
On leaving Loch Rannoch, we stopped at the Queen's View Visitor Centre, which is at the eastern end of Loch Tummel. It looks out towards the Schiehallion mountain and was supposedly popular with Queen Victoria or a slightly more obscure Scottish queen, depending on who you believe. It's a fine … [Read more...]
On leaving St Andrews, we headed up across the River Tay, past Dundee and Perth and towards Dunkeld, which is a pleasant, if touristy, town whose main attraction was unclear. It does, however, have a small cathedral in a perfect setting - well worth the short walk from the town centre/riverside … [Read more...]
The plan for our latest motorhome trip was to travel around Scotland in an anticlockwise fashion, from east to west. We also extended the trip via several (8, in total!) ferries to explore the northern islands - both Orkney and Shetland. We visited the Scottish Borders briefly last autumn (click … [Read more...]
