Sadly our time on the west came to an end for now. Moving over to the east coast in Fortrose, we went over via Garve and Dingwall, and we bumped into the one and only Mr Simon Friend, Levellers legendary guitarist. What a pleasure! Douglas was exited (ok more for his bonio??) and I was gobsmacked! https://www.fortrosebaycampsite.co.uk/ We love Fortrose and again, when we walked into the town for a meal and a few drinks, we felt welcomed and the locals chatted to us.
One thing we did feel quite honoured to see was a family of Seals basking on some rocks and a pod of Dolphins going back out to the Moray Firth. Although Chanonry Point is renowned for watching Dolphins, I think they avoided us and we fell lucky as this was one in six times to go see them!! The lighthouse did make a good black and white photo subject!
By now we was thinking about our time coming to an end in Scotland but we had one more stay and that was in Portsoy. We had never been before and as we drove over, the landscape wasn't the same (obviously) and we preferred the western side. However, when we explored and met a few locals, what a place, we was quite taken by it and got welcomed by the locals in The Shore Inn. https://portsoylinks.org/ Another campsite overlooking the ocean, nice site but a bit busy for us. That said, we would stay there again but midweek. And this is the view.. Around the harbour.
As we explored more, we found out that some of the old buildings around the harbour had been used in Peaky Blinders, the scenes where Michael Gray gets killed and the car explodes. Hopefully these capture the essence? And that was the end, time for home..
Getting a bit boring Mark...same old beautiful pictures, stunning locations, glorious weather, happy peeps....we need some variety; out of focus, rain soaked and cold.... Looks like you had a great trip and I'm not jealous at all
I’ll add some more tomorrow then Chris it was a superb trip and I would recommend a holiday up there.
What midges. We had one night earlier in the holiday but they didn’t bother me too much. I think they are June while late august.
