VIEWS OVER EDINBURGH FROM CASTLE HILL Edinburgh Castle towers over the city below, providing spectacular views over the town below and surrounding landscape. There has been a fortress of some kind on Castle Hill since the Iron Age, and as Edinburgh and the Kingdom of Scotland grew in […]
END OF THE HIGHLAND ROAD FOR US… We pulled into the car rental place at Inverness with heavy hearts this afternoon; our Highland road trip came to an end today so we had to hand the keys back over and bid farewell to the glorious Scottish scenery we’ve […]
SKYE’S THE LIMIT The Isle of Skye is one of Scotland’s top tourist destinations (after Edinburgh and Inverness/Loch Ness), and with good reason! We did a day-long driving tour of the island today and got to see picturesque villages, jagged mountains, velvety moors, cascading waterfalls, and towering sea […]
THE LONG WAY ROUND – ULLAPOOL TO LOCH ALSH If you like to stand in awe of Nature, then the Scottish Highlands are for you. If you enjoy peace and quiet, and like to drive for hours, seeing nothing but glorious scenery and the occasional sheep, then the […]
RIGHT TO THE TOP OF BRITAIN! Our Scottish Highland road trip continued today as we headed due north from the Black Isle, bound for Thurso. We covered about 300km in a little over 8 hours, stopping every few minutes (or os it seemed!) for photos. We had been […]
Wandering Soles 