One of my favorite parts of driving around the Scottish Highlands is hairy coo spotting. As you drive along, you’ll catch sight of a couple cows grazing in a pasture far up the road.
Your heart gives a little flutter. Are they just the regular kind? Or could they be… ? They look to be the right color… yes! Hairy coos! Hairy coos! HAIRY COOS! At least this is how it goes in our car.
As you can see, hairy coos are well superior to normal cows, in that they are hairy and look like muppets. You can spot them all over the Highlands.
After our distillery tour, we continued on our way to Banff, where we had reserved a room at a quirky, awkward hotel just out of town, Fife Lodge. We didn’t love it as much as we did our seaside B&B in Nairn, but it got the job done, and its pub proved a cozy spot to spend an evening drinking and trip-planning.
The next morning we took a quick spin around the small seaside town of Banff (large enough and cute enough to warrant more time than we gave it) and then went to visit Duff House, a fancy Georgian home which has been restored and is now open to visitors. We let the flustered yet friendly woman at the desk talk us into a year-long membership to Historic Scotland, which gets us into castles, stately homes, and other historic sites located in (as you may have guessed) Scotland.
Duff House itself was good but not great; a fine place to pass an hour or so on a less-than-sunny day learning about a small pocket of local history.
Up next on our eastern Scotland road trip: lighthouses and local heros
