Inverness Travel Blogs

It's the Monday moring in Inverness and I'm already shaking with the pneumonia.  I think if I do develop the man flu and a subsequent epidermic of plague follows, we should all blame the hostel in Inverness.  That or the dip into Loch Ness! I parked the car in the multistorey and met up …

Our first full day to delve into Scotland!  Since we had retired Saturday night around Scotland time after staying awake for about 40 hours, we arose a little late…but with no jet lag issues.  The day’s plan was simply to rendezvous with Chip and his adopted family for dinner at th…

Picked up by an old blue and gray rolls royce to take us to the hotel , unfortunaltly the wine said to have been provided in the car was not there.Room lovely , they where not able to give us a room with four poster bed , but we did have a king size bed , bathroom was immaculate and shower was huge…

Edinburgh & Scottish Highlands, July 2006

What a way to spend a birthday!  I'm up in Inverness now, drove up here yesterday.  For those that don't know Inverness is in Northern Scotland, and is along Loch Ness.  So lets bring you up to date, yesterday we left Edinburgh and drove the 3 hours it takes to get to Inverness.…

That morning we all groggily woke up, missing breakfast cos we overslept! WE eventually got up, packed up our stuff and loaded it into luggage storage in reception. We all wanted a huge, greasey breakfast. To the Standing Order - a Wetherspoons. It was a good 15 minute trek from teh hostel but we w…

We had driven along Loch Ness in the afternoon of day 4, but today was our day to spend on the loch.  Before we did that, we spent the morning hiking through some of the bens (mountains (large hills, really)) of the Scottish north.  Along these particular bens are several caves that we sp…

All about my trip to Edinburgh, the backpacking tour through the Highlands & Isle of Skye with 'Wild in Scotland' and one additional lazy day in Edinburgh enjoying the festival.

Had some bad news this morning.  I tried to download the pictures I took yesterday and most were not there.  I had dropped my camera yesterday, and the battery compartment popped open and the batteries fell out.  I put them back in, and turned the camera on.  It powered up and I…

The last trip we took during our first year of university in Aberdeen was the trip to Loch Ness on the 14th of May. This time however, the trip wasn't organized by the international society, but by the German society. This meant that instead of a busload of about 50 people, there were only 4, inclu…

WEDNESSDAY: DAY 13: I awoke early to catch sunrise out of our window since we were facing east, but to my dismay it was very cloudy and hazy. Got breakfast and drove down the road to tour the LOCH NESS 2000 EXHIBITION CENTER. It was high tech with 7 themed areas, laser and special effects. At …

Sunday morning - by now I am utterly exhausted! Charis had been so inconsolable when she woke (for the third time!) at 6.30am that I had to take her down to the living room. And she stayed awake til around 9am! We had hoped to go to the Fathers' Day service at Dunbeg Church, but it wasn't looking l…

Next day in the morning I took the train to Thurso. Still for free!! If You can't make the trip in a day of Your flight arrival, You can use the ticket next day to continue journey! Sweet :) The landscape was amazing. I love the emptyness and remoteness of scottish highlands. First part of rail tri…

Edinburgh meet up…then a road trip to Inverness and the Isle of Skye with two aussies girls and 1 english girl – Hannah-lou, Anna_B_82 (Shes from New Zealand really) and matthew1982 (who is actually male and not an English girl…although after the Ghost Tour I have my suspicions! Haha Sorry mate!)

Blissfully, we woke on little more than two hours rest. Over the next couple of hours, we hung out in bed, relaxed, talked.  At 8:30am, I made my departure back to the hostel where only my luggage had spent the night.   It was a magnificent cloudy Scottish morning and I loved life as I …