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After our final train ride, we took a cab to the Inverness Airport and picked up our rental car. I caved in and bought the insurance (20 pound a day!) because I'm paranoid of having an accident while driving on the opposite side of the road. We decided to skip the hotel and go straight to Urquhart Castle. This saved me from having to drive on busy city streets and endangering loads more people. Urquhart Castle is an ancient structure overlooking Loch Ness. There was an informative video which ends with the video screen retracting to the ceiling and the curtains behind it opening up to reveal the castle in the distance. The ruins are pretty well preserved with some towers still accessible. We ate a dodgy lunch in the visitor's center cafeteria. On the road outside the castle is a sign for a pottery shop. The shop was located at the end of a long single-lane road. We had to pull over and let numerous cars go by us. I hadn't realized at that point that this would be typical of my driving experience in the Highlands. Jen picked up a plate and a bitty little vase/toothpick holder and had them shipped back home. Back down the mountain, head to town, check in to our hotel. We ate a pub around the block, and went to bed. |
Got the train to Inverness today and took a cab to the airport to pick up our rental car. It had a GPS system which came in handy for us foreigners. John and I both had really tense spots right above our stomachs from trying to drive on the left side of the road and negotiate the round-a-bouts that pop up every half mile (they measure distance in miles there). First stop was Urquhart Castle. We watched a video about how a priest named Columba had first seen the spot and wanted to build. He led the Pict chief to Jesus right before the chief died. There were wars and fights and such and eventually the place got blown up by powderkegs. But the cool thing was that once the video was over, the screen rolled up and the curtains opened to show the ruins of Urquhart through the window. We went down and explored for a while then headed up to the restaurant. John ate a foul ham, pineapple, and cheese mayo sandwich that looked terrifying. He would later say that was one of the nastiest things he ate in Scotland. My food wasn't much better - a baked potato topped with baked beans. Then we headed to the hotel in Inverness, but I was distracted by a sign for pottery. We followed the sign down this long, long, looonnng road and came to a little pottery shop at the very end. It was really fortuitous because the people there warned us that there was construction blocking off the street to the hotel. They told us about a back way and that's the way we went. |
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