A morning drive to Scone Palace (closed) and Blair Castle (closed), with detours to Dunkeld, Pitlochry, Killiecrankie Pass, the Delfour Stone Circle, Clava Cairns, Culloden and Ness City Tyres (two very unsafe front tyres replaced incredibly quickly and professionally – thank you!) brought us to Inverness. What a welcome sight was our fantastic little flat … a walk across the gorgeous pedestrian bridge over the River Ness from Inverness’s city centre.
You may have noticed a bit of a connection to a particular TV series that deals with time travel and things Scottish. We have intentionally and unintentionally been finding places that have links to Outlander. And it seems there are many other travellers that have the same idea … lots of stone pushing and wandering about looking wistful!
After a glorious morning’s walk around Inverness, we hit the road into the Highlands. As we drove along the northern shore of Loch Ness, the weather began to close in. Dark clouds delivered rain squalls. Fortunately there were breaks in the rain, some that coincided with our view stops. Open roofed castle explorations are not that enjoyable in the rain, so we skipped buying tickets and viewed from afar. Our westward route sent us up into some gorgeous mountain passes, where snow still dusted the tops of mountains. After a surprising sighting of feral goats (and a round of My Highland Goat singing) at the Glen Sheil Pass, we descended to Loch and the Eilan Donan Castle.
Despite many attractions only opening in April, the joy of having a drone is that you can often get a view of what you wanted to see even if you cannot go inside. Also the drone gives us really interesting aerial perspectives of some stunning locations.
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