The second day we were in Scotland, we found a postcard at one of the shops that had a roadsign on it that just said ‘LOST’. We laughed that we were spending a lot of time there. We looked through the road atlas to find it, so we could say we’d been there, but no luck.

Loch Torridon was recommended to us by the man we met on the flight into Edinburgh. He was very emphatic that we visit, as he thought it was the most beautiful place in Scotland, and often came up here simply to sit and look around. The mountains surrounding the loch are stunning, and we got […]

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!

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 […]

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?)

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.

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 […]

On the shore of the beautiful Loch Broom, Ullapool is a quaint little village of whitewashed buildlings lining the long harbour

Just a few lovely pictures of Loch Broom