Well it's 8:30am and I'm waiting for my flight to Kirkwell on Orkney, its another beautiful highland day, the suns up and its burning off the mist and I've taken my scarf off!
The trip from FW to Inverness was uneventful, I did have to stop to let a boat through crossing the Calledonian Canal. Luckily I was the first car so I managed to get some photos
Once the boat went past I continued on to Inverness.
Driving along Loch Ness was frustrating, I just wanted to soak up the scenery, but needed to stay on the road so I had to leave the scenery for when I was walking!!!
Arriving in Inverness I had a few hours to kill before I could check in to Drumdale where I was staying so I decided to take a trip to Culloden. Now you all know that apart from back in the 60's when I visited fairly regularly, I have only been back to Culloden once in 2005, on that trip, I could still feel the history and the emotion on the moor, it gave me goosebumps. Unfortunately this time, there have been so many changes to accommodate the increased tourism that the moor itself no longer has that aura of mystery about it. I was talking to a guide and he said that Braveheart doubled the tourist numbers and now Outlander has quadrupled them. The information centre is really interesting, but with so any people it's hard to take in the information.
Not quite what I was hoping for. And the McDonnell of Glen Garry clan stone is no longer there.
My flight will be boarding soon, so I'll leave it there and blog from Orkney, I'm doing a tour of a distillery this afternoon. Love you all.
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