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Leaving the Isle of Skye and heading east, we passed the lovely Eilean Donan Castle on the tidal Loch Duich. |
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We stopped at Urquhart Castle on the western shore of Loch Ness. No sign of any monster, and the ruins were a bit too carefully tended. |
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This was our B&B in Inverness. It was in a one-way street up above the town centre and not easy to find, but worth the search. |
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This was the view from our window in the B&B, looking over Inverness and towards the hills on the far side of Moray Firth. Not very pleasant weather. |
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Just east of Inverness, near the Culloden battlefield, are the Clava Stones: a mixture of standing stones and stone burial cairns dating back at least 2000 years. |
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Further east is Brodie Castle, still inhabited and a quite typical Scottish castle-cum-mansion. |
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We got as far east as Elgin, where the Cathedral was abandoned when the Scots took to Calvinistic Protestantism, and has since fallen into riun. |
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