I decided that I wanted to go exploring again this weekend and thought that Inverness would be a good place to go. So we packed up the rental car and drove there on Saturday. We had booked a room at a really nice hotel just outside of the city. Stopped off, checked in and headed to our next destination... Loch Ness!
It is the perfect time of year to visit Loch Ness, the fall colours were absolutely gorgeous. It is an impressive site, being that it took us about an hour and a half to drive around it. We were a little disappointed in that we only saw the monster once - we were hoping to see a family of Nessies. We actually skipped the Loch Ness Monster interpretive center and went to see another castle instead. Urquhart Castle really drove home the fact that castles were pretty useless in protecting the inhabitants, as the video at the castle said " seizing the castle was the easy part, holding was more difficult". The castle, much like most of the castles here, passed hands many times and was destroyed and rebuilt many times.
The drive around the loch provided some breathtaking scenery, just when we thought we had found the most beautiful vista, over the next hill lay something even more fantastic.
Here are a few of our pics.
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