Loch Ness and Kyle of Lochalsh

This is a bit of a catch up post…

We left Glasgow Queen Street on Sunday morning for our trip to Inverness.  The scenery, particularly between Perth and Inverness, was spectacular.

Our hotel in Inverness was on the banks on the River Ness and was great.  This is looking back to the hotel as we were leaving

We arrived in Inverness on Sunday afternoon.  After making our way to the hotel to drop our bags, we set off for the tourist information office via Inverness Castle.  We realised that it was too late to go to Loch Ness that afternoon, so went shopping instead and got an early dinner at the pub near the station

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As we were in Scotland, I felt I should try some local foods!  Although probably not only available in Scotland, I tried black pudding for breakfast, but wasn’t all that impressed.  We set off early on Monday morning and caught a bus to the ruined Urquhart Castle on the banks of Loch Ness.  We paid to tour the site which was very interesting and the views of Loch Ness were superb.

We returned to Inverness on the bus and had time to grab some lunch before we caught the train to Kyle of Lochalsh.  I am really glad we went to Urquhart Castle as it was fascinating and it was great to see Loch Ness.  But we had originally intended to catch an earlier train to Kyle and explore whether we could walk across the bridge to the Isle of Skye or catch a bus.   However the train was late arriving so we just explored the books on sale at the station and got back on the train for our return trip to Inverness, in the dark.

The trip to Kyle was well worth the time as the scenery was magnificent.

There is a constant problem everywhere we go that there are heaps more places we would like to visit than we have time for.  I am reasonably happy with the itinerary decisions I made, although sometimes things don’t go exactly to plan!  Tonight we are in Nottingham.  Fortunately the hotel is really good, as we were over an hour late arriving which meant my plans to look at the castle in the daylight, before it shut, didn’t happen.  Instead we went for a short walk, including reserving seats for tomorrow, before returning to the hotel for dinner.

Tomorrow (Friday) we are off to Cambridge; hopefully, without any signal faults to hold us up