![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kennahijjaHiya!
Thanks for the good wishes for the Inverness trip - which is over now, more's the pity, and great fun was had! Currently, my modem is dead and replacement due on Monday, so I'm back to snatching moments of wireless from the neighbours, *ducks*.
Anyway, a few of you asked for a report, so here goes:
We saw Inverness (duh!) which is quite an attractive city if with a lot of empty shops in the centre. But the river Ness is beautiful, there are some very nice oldish buildings, and, the coolest of all places, a huge second-hand bookstore in an old church, the top floor of which is a really great cafe. We spend quite some time there, yours truly picking up, among wild giggles, a 1970s horror "The Curse of Loch Ness" in the extensive SF section. Anyway, if you ever find yourself in Inverness, that place is my tip of the day!
We saw Loch Ness (hence the giggling) by boat, and Urquhart Castle the ruin, and the Loch Ness Exhibition Centre, which was very interesting and nicely scientific. Also, Cawdor Castle (very nice, and out in the countryside with a great flower garden) and also the Culloden Battlefield (which my inner historian found way too narrow in scope for an exhibition centre of that size). The field itself is quite chilling, though, and not just because of its windswept-ness...
My personal highlight was Fort George, a still-active military fortress north of Inverness on the very edge of the coastline of the Moray Firth. It's so windy you actually have to walk carefully, but the layout and architecture and the views from the walls... holy heck! One of the most amazing things I've ever seen, and I'm anything but a military enthusiast. But it's practically build into the earth, and has parts that look like Aztec or Mayan temples, and... It's hard to describe, but I absolutely loved it. We survived the rainstorm of all rainstorms almost dry huddled against the side of a caravan, because the wind was so strong it practically whipped the rain away over our heads.
And the scenery was gorgeous, of course, also on the train ride... too bad it's over already.
Thanks for the good wishes for the Inverness trip - which is over now, more's the pity, and great fun was had! Currently, my modem is dead and replacement due on Monday, so I'm back to snatching moments of wireless from the neighbours, *ducks*.
Anyway, a few of you asked for a report, so here goes:
We saw Inverness (duh!) which is quite an attractive city if with a lot of empty shops in the centre. But the river Ness is beautiful, there are some very nice oldish buildings, and, the coolest of all places, a huge second-hand bookstore in an old church, the top floor of which is a really great cafe. We spend quite some time there, yours truly picking up, among wild giggles, a 1970s horror "The Curse of Loch Ness" in the extensive SF section. Anyway, if you ever find yourself in Inverness, that place is my tip of the day!
We saw Loch Ness (hence the giggling) by boat, and Urquhart Castle the ruin, and the Loch Ness Exhibition Centre, which was very interesting and nicely scientific. Also, Cawdor Castle (very nice, and out in the countryside with a great flower garden) and also the Culloden Battlefield (which my inner historian found way too narrow in scope for an exhibition centre of that size). The field itself is quite chilling, though, and not just because of its windswept-ness...
My personal highlight was Fort George, a still-active military fortress north of Inverness on the very edge of the coastline of the Moray Firth. It's so windy you actually have to walk carefully, but the layout and architecture and the views from the walls... holy heck! One of the most amazing things I've ever seen, and I'm anything but a military enthusiast. But it's practically build into the earth, and has parts that look like Aztec or Mayan temples, and... It's hard to describe, but I absolutely loved it. We survived the rainstorm of all rainstorms almost dry huddled against the side of a caravan, because the wind was so strong it practically whipped the rain away over our heads.
And the scenery was gorgeous, of course, also on the train ride... too bad it's over already.
no subject
Date: 2008-08-28 08:15 pm (UTC)