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Not the worst view we've had from a hotel
window; The Moray Firth and beyond from The Smithton Hotel just outside
Inverness. |
26, 27
May 2019
After
watching Great British Road Trips the General Wade Military Road episode Thunderthighs
requested we drive that road from Inverness to the Glenelg ferry.
We’ve
stopped over in Inverness many times but never had a proper look around so this
time we stayed in Smithton, bussed in and got on a City Sightseeing
hop-on-hop-off for the tour.
Unlike
Glasgow (and elsewhere) in Inverness they inflict every type of Scottish music
on passengers with the interesting and informative commentary. The pipes start as soon as you board then it's
short snaps of Jimmy Shand, Andy Sterwart, the Proclaimers, fiddling Strathspeyreels, execrable versions of Mull of Kintyre and Amazing Grace, other
Caledonian stuff I can't name and Hoots Man There's A Moose Loose Aboot The
Hoose. The last was the only one Ferretfingers
liked and giggled about for a day or so.
Even right at the back on the outside there was no escape; I spent a
fair time with my handbag shoved over the speaker to deaden it.
Other
than that, the wind and the rain, it was an excellent ride.
Thunderthighs
found and hopefully presented me with a Loch Ness cruises brochure but I
demurred on the grounds that there were bound to be pipes playing and, much as
I like them and would like to do the trip, it would drive Ferretfingers
demented. Also it would be full of
tourists. Thunderthighs agreed.
The
bus broke down on Culloden Moor.
Ferretfingers fell asleep.
We won't discuss how Thunderthighs reacted.
27 May at 15.52
Looking over the battlefield
Now this is a form of information board we like.
Information on one side and a bench on the other.
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