Another school holiday trip out this week, as we took one of the tattered remains of our once proud rail network upcountry to Inverness.
It is a beautiful train ride, some 2 hours through rolling hills and farmland, with the Grampian mountains in the distance, and with abandoned stations, ruined castles and ancient stone circles all on view from the windows. Certainly beats the trip into London…..
As you can see Inverness sits on the River Ness as it flows from Loch Ness to the sea, and is quite picturesque, despite the best efforts of the town planners in the 1960’s. As ever the best architecture is from the distant past, like their castle:
Which was actually built in 1910, and is now the council offices. We had a wander down the riverside, had a picnic on Ness Island, returned a lost child to it’s mother, and the boys rampaged through the trees, disturbing the wildlife.
Back into town past the gorgeous war memorial gardens:
and into the Victorian era market for Steph & my sister Alison, to browse endlessly through numerous antique jewelers….. time for more paid posts I think!
The boys had a great time being constantly fed by Grandma’s bottomless picnic bag, and I think we even got a little sunburnt, which is an achievement this summer. A near empty train ride back, briefly interrupted by us running over something very solid - the driver stopped, looked and then got back in again - and it was back to Aberdeen. Which is way nicer than Inverness 
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Hey! That’s where my crazy Sco’ish neighbour is from!! I’ll have to tell her what you said about Aberdeen being nicer
I havent been to Aberdeen since i was very wee, but our Heather said its nowhere near as nice as Inverness
Well they have more charity shops….
oh thats not nice!
In fairness, we didn’t explore the outskirts of town which may have been nicer
I’d love to visit there someday…we just don’t have castles here….