[Photos] UK 22 - Driving through Scotland

[moonvoice]

This is an aggregate of driving photos from all over, but almost all of it is Northern Highlands. I will put locations where I can, but don't expect many. Most of these photos we did pull over for (in allocated spots to pull over, we are not the kind of people to just block traffic).

One of the things I found a total marvel about Scotland is how frequently they *didn't* actually make spectacular views accessible to tourists. Either they are just so used to having so many views that there's no point for them, or what we find spectacular is just normal. Or because the country is so hike/walking friendly, in many instances it doesn't bother to make many places available beyond that.

Honestly everywhere we went, we wished we'd spent more time there.






We visited the Isle of Skye after Eilean Donan. I personally didn't love it as much as some of the places we went, perhaps because I'd already seen literally three hours of picturesque places and was maybe a tad burnt out? But no, on the drive back I saw more breathtaking places. I think it was an energy thing, I did not click with this place, and I took very few photos as a result.



More Isle of Skye





The dual language signs typical of the Highlands



Driving back to the mainland.











I'm actually fairly certain this is the Loch Ness. We were caught in traffic, it's not a bad place to be caught in traffic, lol.



This is very much NOT Loch Ness (tbh, of all the big Lochs we saw, I preferred all the others to Ness, lol).





The embankment on the other side of the road as we drove along Loch Ness

Comments

[cmcmck]

Just back from the northern isles ourselves and the first lot of pics is up!

The one you think is Ness is! A familiar spot, is that.

[moonvoice]

That's so awesome that you're so familiar with Loch Ness!

[elinox]

"Honestly everywhere we went, we wished we'd spent more time there."

Sums up my own trip to Scotland perfectly!

[wendelah1]

Such a beautiful country. Your photos are spectacular.

[cmcmck]

Not so far from other half's home territory.

[silverjackal]

This is actually far sunnier than I expected. I am accustomed to northern Europe, where it is often overcast. The photos are all beautiful, and of course I had to start humming "Donald Where's Your Trousers?". ;D

[moonvoice]

:D Right? It's such a marvellous place.

[moonvoice]

I consider myself so lucky to have been able to have visited kasjfd

[moonvoice]

We had like unusually good, sunny weather throughout all of northern Scotland (and Orkney - the blue skies we saw there seemed impossible, as you'll soon see in the photographs). We had just about NO days of rain during the entire 37 days, and what rain we had was always in the south of England. Our Orcadian hosts joked that we brought the weather with us from Perth, but it was terribly unseasonal, even for Spring. There was nothing normal about the sunny weather, tbh, even for 'Scotland in Spring.' Every single local we talked to mentioned it when we didn't, and they were all quick to say that even though it was *nice* it wasn't *normal* with an undercurrent of profound worry re: climate change.