Your Personal Guide to the North Highlands
This North Highlands trip through some glorious scenery tracing the route of the Great Glen takes around five hours by two coaches starting from Inverness Coach Station and ending on the harbour front at Oban on the west coast. There is one bus change at Fort Wiliam, but the two buses are pretty much next …
North Highlands Trips by Public Transport – Inverness to Oban Read More »
I recently heard that the future of the Old High Kirk in Inverness is in some doubt. The parish that is responsible for looking after the church, St Stephens in the Crown, has problems with funding. In this extract from my walking tour of Inverness, I hope you’ll agree that there are some compelling reasons …
The idea of travelling the North Coast 500 (NC500) had been milling around my brain for more than a year. The NC500 is possibly the top-selling attraction bringing tourists to my patch here in the north of Scotland. The North Coast 500 was the brainchild of the North Highlands Initiative, a committee set up by …
A Special Location on the North Coast 500 If you are looking for things to do in Wick while travelling through the North Highlands, perhaps on your trip around the North Coast 500, a perfect way to spend a couple of hours is on the informative and enjoyable Wick Walking Tour. We will meet at …
Of all the mysterious things about a place like the Northern Highlands, one of the greatest mysteries is found in the least expected place for such a thing. The front of the Inverness Town House is placed, in a position of prominent authority, above the grand front door is placed the Coat of Arms of …
Every country has had its prophets: Greece its Cassandra, Rome its Sybils, England its Nixon, Wales its Robin Ddu, and the Highlands their Kenneth Oaur … The predictions, say the good wives, have been fulfilled, and not a single breach in the oracular effusions of Kenneth Oaur. The words of the English writer Thomas Pennant …
The first travel writer in the Scottish Highlands was Martin Martin, who wrote: ‘A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland’, published in 1703. There had been earlier works describing the region (such as Dean Munro and Robert Boyle). Still, these were more catalogues of the natural environment and trading output of the remote islands. …
Inverness The railway line from Inverness to Thurso and Wick in Caithness is the northernmost railway in the British Isles, and it is my preferred route in and out of home in Wick to the big city of Inverness some one hundred and twenty-five kilometres (somewhat less than eighty miles) away as the crow flies. …
John O’Groats is most famous today for being the opposite end of mainland Britain from Land’s End in Cornwall. It also sits on the North Coast 500, a circular route of the North Highlands now popular with visitors who enjoy travelling on a route with a purpose. It is almost a compulsory stop on any …
It has been one heck of a year, well more than a year now, and it is getting on for two full tourism seasons that we have been living under the conditions of the Coronavirus pandemic. Stay Safe, Make Space Alex the Guide is keen to ensure that everyone coming to the North Highlands has …