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 […]
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A french-chateau in the Scottish Highlands, who’d have thought?
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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.
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A tiny, ruined z-plan tower house, which has partially collapsed into the sea
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Weird stacked-stone formations, and two separate castles on this crumbling sea cliff
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These are interesting stone formations off the coast near John O’Groats, the northernmost point of Scotland (ok, there is some argument there, but it is the northernmost town?)
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Low walls on the crown of a hill are all that remain of this Highland castle
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This is the site of the destroyed village of Rossal. The village was cleared out and destroyed when the English took over much of the highland lands, evicting the Scots farmers. The village was burned to the ground.
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John O’Groats is the northernmost point of the mainland, over 876 miles from Lands End, the southernmost part of England. It is named after a Dutch trader, Jan de Groot, who started the first ferry route out to the Orkneys, which can be seen faintly in the distance. While John O’Groats is usually accepted as […]
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On the shore of the beautiful Loch Broom, Ullapool is a quaint little village of whitewashed buildlings lining the long harbour
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