Today we travelled from Inverness to Dunkeld taking in the following sites and sights:
Clava Cairns: A concentration of prehistoric stone circles and burial cairns dating from around 4000 yrs ago.
Clava Cairns, nr Inverness, Scotland
Culloden Battlefield and Visitor Centre. Location of last battle on British soil which witnessed the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s attempt to take over the thrones of Scotland and England for the Stewart dynasty. Excellent visitor centre.
Culloden Battlefield, nr Inverness, Scotland
Cawdor Castle. Long standing family home with well maintained garden. Loose links with Shakespeare’s Macbeth (Thane of Cawdor).
Cawdor Castle, nr Inverness, Scotland
Garden at Cawdor Castle, Scotland
Aviemore. Town in Cairngorms focused on outdoor activties. We had lunch here.
Edradour Distillery, Pitlochry.. We joined a tour of Scotland’s smallest legal distillery learning about malting, mashing, fermentation,distillation and maturation.
Edradour Distillery, Pitlochry, Scotland
Dunkeld. Here we paid a short visit to Birnam, dinner at the Atholl Arms Hotel and then retired to our lodgings.
Beatrix Potter Garden at Birnam
Birnam View, Scotland
Overall, a good day benefiting from mainly dry weather.
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