Drove the hire car from Rye to Gatwick airport and flew to Inverness, the “capital” of the Scottish Highlands, where I acquired another rental car and drove down the road a wee bit to a lovely B&B, Sandown House, in Nairn for 3 nights. Scotland was immediately different to England with reddish sandstone buildings and scots pines featuring…less colour than England, more austere and just, well..Scottish! The Moray Firth was calm and the shore fringed with coarse sand, some grand homes and buildings and some very plain, even bleak… a difference in climate and economy is evident.
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