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Today we drove past Eilean Donan Castle (pictured) to Loch Ness and on to Cannich, where we lunched and then drove up Glen Affric. We are staying at the Glen Moriston Arms (also pictured), close to Loch Ness, a friendly hotel with a nice room, good food (duck and pork in our case) and wine.
For our second day we drove along the other side of the Loch to Inverness and then visited the Culloden battlefield historic site. The new visitor centre is expensive, we spent 22 pounds, but very interesting, telling us more than we ever learnt at school. For the film show we stood in the middle of the room with redcoats firing from the screen behind us as primitive tribal savages charged us from the screen in front. Holes appeared in the bodies of those hit by musket balls or grapeshot.
We returned to the hotel on main roads so we were surprised to find no petrol stations along our route. This resulted in the ultimate economy driving, coasting down even the slightest slope. We deviated to Fort William to be sure of finding fuel.

Labels: Travel