Our day today started by a walk through the Old Priory at Beauly. It was built in 1290 and is nowadays a ruin, and has been since Cromwell's time. From there we headed towards Ullapool, which is on the north west coast of Scotland, about 48miles from where we are staying. As usual we dressed for cooler weather, but on arrival in Ullapool it was a very pleasant 18 degrees. This town is a white wash coastal village which relies on shipping and tourism. It is a very pretty place. We headed back out of Ullapool, through the highlands again, and then took the road to Isle of Skye, another pretty little place that seems very quite - here we saw Castle Moiar (not sure of spelling) another ancient ruin. Back in the car we travelled through the highlands ever changing landscape, it goes from craggy forested country to open rolling bare hills

We arrived back with a little time to drive through Inverness, past the castle - John says it's a pretend one!!!! Since being back at the hotel I have had and enjoyed a relaxing bath - and John went to the bar and finally found a Scotsman who he could hardly understand. Apparently they had a great conversation