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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.

Had some beautiful sunshine to explore the gardens at Great Dixter which surround the medieval hall house. Christopher Lloyd lived here creating the gardens as he was a gardener /designer and writer with a passion for sausage dogs too! Local fish for lunch at a nice pub.

Walked for a few hours near Rye in the Romney Marsh  where the river flows out to sea through a man made harbour and reinforced channel surrounded by gravelly pond and expanses of shingle with the unusual kale like vegetation growing at the back of the beach. Lots of gulls and terns.