Culloden Battlefield

May 30, 1999.Reading time 2 minutes.

Site of the disastrous battle on April 16, 1746, between the underfed, tired, and badly armed Highland army and the English. This bleak, wet moor marked the end of the Jacobite rebellion under Bonnie Prince Charlie

Ft George

May 30, 1999.Reading time 3 minutes.

Fort George is a substantial fortress built on a peninsula jutting out into the Moray Firth. It is an artillery fortress built between 1748 and 1769 was supposed to be an impregnable fort for George IIs soldiers.

Inverfairigaig

May 30, 1999.Reading time 1 minute.

Ok, it’s a strange picture, but as far as we could tell, this was the entire town of Inverfairigaig. A postbox, a phonebox, and a bulletin board. There wasn’t anything for miles in any direction. Trust me. We tried!

Castle Fraser

May 30, 1999.Reading time 1 minute.

A complete baronial mansion, now a country-house hotel, with turrets and towers

Stratharrock Hills

May 30, 1999.Reading time 1 minute.

These rolling hills are covered in heather in the spring, and the views from the tiny single-track road are worth stopping for since they seem to go on forever. Scotland is not a very big country (less than 300 miles from north to south, and as little as 70 or so wide in places), but […]

Travelogue: Day 17

May 31, 1999.Reading time 11 minutes.

Trekking to the northernmost point of mainland Scotland

Dunrobin

May 31, 1999.Reading time 3 minutes.

A french-chateau in the Scottish Highlands, who’d have thought?

Gray Cairns of Camster

May 31, 1999.Reading time 2 minutes.

One of the remaining examples of prehistoric stone cairns in Caithness in the bleak moors. The cairns, or burial mounds, date from the Neolithic Period, roughly 4000-1800BC.

Keiss

May 31, 1999.Reading time 1 minute.

A tiny, ruined z-plan tower house, which has partially collapsed into the sea

Girnigoe and Sinclair

May 31, 1999.Reading time 3 minutes.

Weird stacked-stone formations, and two separate castles on this crumbling sea cliff