It was still raining as we pulled into Plockton, but the charm of this small seaside town was evident even through the dreich.
road trip
Scottish Highlands: hiking the dunes of Faraid Head
Back to our road trip through the western Highlands. In our last post, we drove the beautiful strip from Ullapool to Durness.
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Scottish Highlands: driving the northern west coast
If you look at a map of Scotland’s west coast, you’ll notice that it’s awfully jagged. One can’t exactly drive along it for any significant stretch; instead you just kind of drive near it, wherever the (often single-lane) road takes you.
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Western Highlands: Ullapool
When we moved to Scotland, we started asking everyone we met for travel recommendations. “What’s your favorite place to visit?” “Where should we go first?” Often the answer ended up being something along the lines of “just drive up and down the whole west coast of Scotland.” The first chance we got, we did just that. Our first destination (after a spontaneous stop for a tour of Dalwhinnie Distillery) was Ullapool.
Springtime in Great Britain
Last weekend we drove down to visit some friends in Birmingham. Along the way, spring was in full bloom.
Eastern Scotland: castles and hiking in Deeside
After following the northern coast of eastern Scotland, our route turned inland towards Loch Kinord, where we stayed for a night. This area is known as Royal Deeside, due to its proximity to the River Dee and to Balmoral Castle, the queen’s famed vacation home.
Beyond Edinburgh: Exploring northeast Scotland
We’re finally getting the chance to get out and see some of the wonderful other parts of Scotland that we’ve been hearing so much about. Not knowing where to start, we chose a direction and hopped in the car. We ended up covering a good bit of northeast Scotland on our first five-day excursion, getting just enough of a taste of its rolling hills, castles, beaches, distilleries, and hairy coos to know we definitely want to go back for more.