Inverness
Our train ride to Inverness starts at Edinburgh, Waverly Station.
Normally, if you dicided to pick up your ticket from the counter, you only have to go there and pick it up. Sounds logic.
But ...
You should take your credit card with you, to identify yourself. In fact you should've - correction: I should've taken the one credit card I'd made the payment with. Big mistake and too little time to get it all sorted out. We missed our train to Inverness.
Only one hour later with two new tickets in our hands, we got on a train to Perth where we had to change to a train to Inverness. No problem at all. When back home I will get a refund on the tickets I never used.
The train ride through the Grampian Mountains is breathtakingly beautiful. No picture out of a train's window can ever do it justice.
The sign says: Druimuachdar Pass - the highest point on the British Rail network.
Our first impression of Inverness: beautiful, little town and great path along the River Ness to do your evening run.
After our first (and last) full Scottish breakfast (you really can have tofu sausages instead of bacon and sausages) prepared by our nice hosts Margret and Angus, we left for a walk along the 'Great Glen Way'.
The way out of Inverness already is very nice along the River Ness, across the Ness Island and up Dunain Hill into the forest.
If you love to walk (and we do), it's a fantastic area to do just this. Unfortunately the pictures come without smell. Grass, leaves, the super fresh air and the Scottish pine makes one heavenly combination.
We walked for 4 hours then had to turn round to be able to get home in good time.
That's when we met Sandy on his bike, who was in a nosy mood to talk to a pair of strangers and ask them where they were from. He told us that he knew all about Germany, because there are so many things on TV and he watches them all. When he learned we were about to head to the Isle of Skye he told us to beware of the ghosts. Obviously they're everywhere on the island ...
I will try to get one in front of my camera.
Beauly Firth from The Great Glen Way
Normally, if you dicided to pick up your ticket from the counter, you only have to go there and pick it up. Sounds logic.
But ...
You should take your credit card with you, to identify yourself. In fact you should've - correction: I should've taken the one credit card I'd made the payment with. Big mistake and too little time to get it all sorted out. We missed our train to Inverness.
Only one hour later with two new tickets in our hands, we got on a train to Perth where we had to change to a train to Inverness. No problem at all. When back home I will get a refund on the tickets I never used.
The train ride through the Grampian Mountains is breathtakingly beautiful. No picture out of a train's window can ever do it justice.
The sign says: Druimuachdar Pass - the highest point on the British Rail network.
Our first impression of Inverness: beautiful, little town and great path along the River Ness to do your evening run.
After our first (and last) full Scottish breakfast (you really can have tofu sausages instead of bacon and sausages) prepared by our nice hosts Margret and Angus, we left for a walk along the 'Great Glen Way'.
The way out of Inverness already is very nice along the River Ness, across the Ness Island and up Dunain Hill into the forest.
If you love to walk (and we do), it's a fantastic area to do just this. Unfortunately the pictures come without smell. Grass, leaves, the super fresh air and the Scottish pine makes one heavenly combination.
We walked for 4 hours then had to turn round to be able to get home in good time.
That's when we met Sandy on his bike, who was in a nosy mood to talk to a pair of strangers and ask them where they were from. He told us that he knew all about Germany, because there are so many things on TV and he watches them all. When he learned we were about to head to the Isle of Skye he told us to beware of the ghosts. Obviously they're everywhere on the island ...
I will try to get one in front of my camera.
Beauly Firth from The Great Glen Way