UK Trip - Day 10
Today we woke up early but decided to laze around since there was not much we had to see in Inverness. We already saw the downtown on the way home yesterday.
So today's agenda was Culloden Battlefield, Clava Cairns and Cawdor Castle.
We first went to the Culloden Battlefield. We posed with Jacobite Colours. We always have been rebels.
This is where the Jacobites got defeated by English troops and ruthlessly murdered earning the British general the title "The Butcher".
After the battle, the tartans were banned, English soldiers looted, raped, pillaged through highlands and took anything edible with them. The stronger highlanders were sold into slavery in other British colonies.
It was the darkest history of Scotland because it also caused a massive food crisis for the highlanders which made them run to other countries like America, Canada etc.
Since Greg has an ancestor who was Jacobite rebels, the connection to the place was stronger.
After the battlefield, we went to Clava Cairns. It's an ancient burial ground from Bronze age and also featured in Netflix series Outlanders as Craigh Na Dun.
I haven't watched that show. But since Greg did, he had to pose as Jamie with me as Claire.
Our plan afterwards was to check out Cawdor Castle. But Greg suddenly mentioned Brodie Castle. After a quick search we found out that Brodie was the farthest from our location but has better stuff to see. It was already 2:30 p.m. and Brodie closes at 5. So we decided to check Brodie out.
But when we got there, we found out that the last tour of the day has left already. Bummer!!!
By that time, it was too late to go back to Cawdor Castle (not that I was much interested to see another castle).
So we decided to stop for fresh berry ice cream (I had Strawberry and Greg got Strawberry/Raspberry) then go on a long drive before dinner.
We drove to a waterfall called Foyers Fall where Greg's ancestor Robert Burns wrote a poem on called "Waterfall Walk"...
That walk to the fall exhausted us so we headed for dinner.
After a lovely dinner at one of the oldest pub in Inverness called "The Doors Inn", we headed back home. We have another long drive tomorrow to Glasgow.
So today's agenda was Culloden Battlefield, Clava Cairns and Cawdor Castle.
We first went to the Culloden Battlefield. We posed with Jacobite Colours. We always have been rebels.
This is where the Jacobites got defeated by English troops and ruthlessly murdered earning the British general the title "The Butcher".
After the battle, the tartans were banned, English soldiers looted, raped, pillaged through highlands and took anything edible with them. The stronger highlanders were sold into slavery in other British colonies.
It was the darkest history of Scotland because it also caused a massive food crisis for the highlanders which made them run to other countries like America, Canada etc.
Since Greg has an ancestor who was Jacobite rebels, the connection to the place was stronger.
After the battlefield, we went to Clava Cairns. It's an ancient burial ground from Bronze age and also featured in Netflix series Outlanders as Craigh Na Dun.
I haven't watched that show. But since Greg did, he had to pose as Jamie with me as Claire.
Our plan afterwards was to check out Cawdor Castle. But Greg suddenly mentioned Brodie Castle. After a quick search we found out that Brodie was the farthest from our location but has better stuff to see. It was already 2:30 p.m. and Brodie closes at 5. So we decided to check Brodie out.
But when we got there, we found out that the last tour of the day has left already. Bummer!!!
By that time, it was too late to go back to Cawdor Castle (not that I was much interested to see another castle).
So we decided to stop for fresh berry ice cream (I had Strawberry and Greg got Strawberry/Raspberry) then go on a long drive before dinner.
We drove to a waterfall called Foyers Fall where Greg's ancestor Robert Burns wrote a poem on called "Waterfall Walk"...
That walk to the fall exhausted us so we headed for dinner.
After a lovely dinner at one of the oldest pub in Inverness called "The Doors Inn", we headed back home. We have another long drive tomorrow to Glasgow.
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