| Bonnie Scotland - a selection of the best places | |||||||||
| Inverness |
The capital of the Highlands...and one of the fastestgrowing towns in Scotland. Before I came there for the first time I thought it's just a boring city like any other, but I was proved wrong... Inverness is beautiful, as you can see on the picture which show two of the town's churches across the river Ness, and it's situated quite centrally for day-tours in all directions. And Loch Ness is not far away, the Loch Ness Monster Exhibition Centre and Urquhart Castle only 20 minutes by car. Of course, other tours are possible, e.g. the Cairngorms (40 miles), the malt whisky trail (120 mile tour), or Glen Afric which offers great walks... Inverness might be a place I would like to live By the way, the name is Gaelic and means mouth of the Ness | ||||||||
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Scotland is famous for its lochs, which is simply the Gaelic word for lake. Best known are certainly Loch Ness with the monster (or not?) and Loch Lomond, the biggest of the lochs. But the picture was taken on neither of them...it's Loch Linnhe, about 10 miles south of Fort William | Lochs | ||||||||
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| Isle of Skye |
This is the place I lost my heart to...and I will definitely try to get a holiday cottage there... Though rough in climate this biggest isle of the Inner Hebrides is always worth a visit of at least one week. It has many Gaelic nicknames, the most frequently used are An Eilean an Sgitheanach, which means the winged isle, and An Eilean a Cheo, meaning the misty isle Access is possible from one bridge (unfortunately the highest toll in the world, let's see what the new Scottish government will do about that and three ferries. The small ferry from Glenelg to Kylerhea is not only cheaper than the bridge, it also offers a very scenic route to the A87 Invergarry to Kyle of Lochalsh. The other two ferries are from Mallaig to Armadale (scenic road from Fort William) and from Tarbert (Isle of Lewis) to Uig. The picture was taken on the way between Kyleakin and Broadford and shows the Black Cuillins, a hill range that rises up to 992m (~3100ft) | ||||||||
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