We stayed in Findhorn on Wednesday night. The town is centered around the Findhorn Foundation or community. It's a New Age community that you might compare to Yogaville in Virginia or the communes that popped up in the 1960s and 70s.
This was in the backyard of our B&B:
A meditation room inside a trailer:
The nature meditation center was described to us as a hobbit house:
After Findhorn, we stopped by some standing stones, Clava Cairn:
Then we went to the Culloden battlefield. Charlotte and I were very excited to see Highland Cows, or horry coos!
The Battle of Culloden was one of the most devastating in Scottish history and meant the end of the clan system:
From the battlefield, we drove through Inverness to Loch Ness--the most anticipated part of the trip for me! The Clansmen Hotel sits on the loch and does boat cruises so we stopped there. They have a very large Nessie store and quite a bit of humor about the possible monster:
We started out on the top deck of the boat to get the great views:
Urquhart Castle is in ruins, but is still one of the most visited castles in Scotland (right after Edinburgh and Stirling). This has to be because of its perfect location on the loch shore:
Because we didn't start the boat tour until 3pm, we were pretty late in getting started on our drive to Skye. It was dark soon after we crossed the bridge to the island. The combination of wind, cliffs, and almost no road signs made for treacherous conditions. I have to give Aunt Kathleen a huge round of applause for getting us through all that. When we finally made it to the B&B, the question of dinner came up. My mom and I ventured to a nearby place, finding the winding roads just as confusing the second time around.
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