We had an interesting night and breakfast at Ardullie, with some really excellent eggs—they were a pure breed of chicken there on the grounds, and the yolks were really dark. We left and went to a Victorian spa village, Strathpeffe. It was a cute town, although several things were closed on Mondays. We tried to go the internet café, whose hours said 10-8, but when we walked in, the chairs were on the table and the owner said they’d be opening at 12:30. I guess posted hours don’t really mean that much.
We headed to Inverness and walked around downtown there. It’s a pretty big city, with some nice architecture (like several of the churches), although none of it is incredibly old (apparently, it was destroyed several times). We had some great Thai food, but couldn’t find any internet access anywhere except the public library, at which there was over an hour wait. So, we headed on to see Loch Ness.
It was pretty, but we took the southern route instead of the normal tourist north route, and therefore drove for a long time on single-track roads and wandered through the forest after seeing the loch. We finally made it back through some beautiful farm country to a main road, and headed down to Aviemore, a ski resort town in the Cairngorms. It was pretty touristy, but we did get an amazing cup of coffee and internet access.
We went on to Craighall Castle, for our final B&B. It was a stunning location, on a huge estate. We stayed in the French bedroom, which had a lovely canopy bed and overlooked a rushing river, some 150 feet below.
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