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Castle Of Mey and Harrow Harbour.
nickandchris Says: Castle of Mey was the Queen Mother's residence which she bought in 1952 and restored and renovated. Here, she spent her summers and odd weekends and later, in 1996, gifted the castle to the Castle Trust, thus enabling us commoners to visit and enjoy.Rather annoyingly, the...
nickandchris Says: Enroute to Dunnet Head we noticed a few cars parked on the side of the road. We wondered what the attraction was and it was only on our return from Dunnet Head we realised there was a rather attrctive bit of accessible coast here with a stack and a tiny harbour. By the time...
nickandchris Says: Dunnet Head is the most northerly point of mainland Great Britain and is the place to go to view seabirds, including puffins, nesting on the 300feet cliffs.A B road leaves the A836 at Dunnet and winds it's way up to the large car park at Dunnet Head.The lighthouse here was...
nickandchris Says: Flagstone is a common sight in Caithness and is used for many building purposes. It splits into slices (flags) and was formed over the years by the lake which covered this area drying out. The lake bed had been formed by successive layers of sediment settling and between the...
interrailerz Says: If you take a walk for 15 minutes or so by the beach from the city center, you will find this quite ruiny castle. The place is a bit mystic, but not for the fainthearted... The smell is awful of rotting corpses of seagulls etc... But it's very exciting :)))
interrailerz Says: This old man was very sad that day we were in Thurso. He was mourning somebody, so he didn't have his soberest day. KD wanted to shoot a photo of all of us. The discourse:- Hey, mister, could you take a photograph of us, please?- Aye, aye - said the old man and sat beside me...
interrailerz Says: 20 years old... :)))
interrailerz Says: By the ruined church of course, where else.
interrailerz Says: ...in the centre of the town. No tourists. Except us!!! :)
interrailerz Says: Anyways, could somebody give us a guess about what land can we see across the sea? :)When we were there we thought that it's the Orkney's, but when we have come home, we realized that it can't be the Orkney's, the'yre a bit far away. So my personal guess was that it's Dunnet...
interrailerz Says: This is the beach of Thurso, very peaceful and still. In the background you can see Scrabster, that is the port of the ferry to the Orkneys
Kittiwake Cottage: Garden CL at Skarfskerry.
nickandchris Says: Knowing we would need to fill up with water and empty the toilet at this stage of our holiday, we pre-booked this site, a Caravan Club 5 van certificated location.To be honest, after having passed some interesting scenery, the site was rather bland, being someone's mown lawn...
WAterside Guest House: Great B&B
nanadear Says: A huge room with private bath. Lovely helpful people. I took a picture of the inside of our room, after staying in such a tiny little place in London for a whole lot more $$$$,I found and reserved it on the internet and we really enjoyed it even though we were only there 2...
nanadear Says: Well being of the Sinclair Clan, I couldn't very well skip our familial castle could I? So we searched the small town of Wick, Scotland and drove down a looooooooooong dirt rode to the Noss Head Lighthouse. It was closed as we did get there rather late, but still before...
The cable tunnel to Iceland and the Faroers :)
interrailerz Says: Yes, here you can see the entrance of the manymany miles long tunnel. Whow!! And sheep behind that! Caithness countryside wow :))(PS: it was a really very nice trip)
barkybite Says: Most tourists don't get to sheep auctions. I hadn't planned to attend either, but the auction house happened to be next to the rail station; I was waiting for a train out of Thurso and I was curious about the amplified voice chanting something--not a word of which (other...
interrailerz Says: This is the seashore view east from Dunnet. Lovely ain't it.
interrailerz Says: Cute sheep in the Scottish countryside.
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interrailerz Says: Dunnet Head is the northernmost point of the Mainland, its about 10-15 km east of Thurso. We took a bus to Castleton and had a nice walk. Yeah! :)
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This is the beach of Thurso, very peaceful and still. In the background you can see Scrabster, that is the port of the ferry to the Orkneys
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And... yes, we're at the end of the world!!!
The number one goal of our journey was to get to Thurso, the most northern city in the Mainland of the British Isles, and it can be reached by 3 trains a day... Having about 9000 inhabitants, it's...
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Thurso To Dunnet Head And A Bit More...
THIS PAGE IS NOTHING ABOUT THURSO, WE DIDN'T STOP IN THE TOWN, BUT ABOUT THE SURROUNDING AREA. After passing through Thurso we called in at the Flagstone Trail in Castletown, had a look at West...
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Thurso little town northern Scotland
My hubby and I traveled by car from Inverness, Scotland to the small town of Thurso. A scary adventure for Americans used to driving on the other side of the road, at least there wasn't much traffic....
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THE NORTHERNMOST TRAIN STATION IN THE UK
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