Inverness. For us, a word full of history, magic, traditions and a campsite with a washing machine.
First things first: we stroll through the town, visit the oldest house in Inverness, which was built in fifteen hundred something, is very tiny (we are through with the tour in five minutes) and then swing over to the Victorian Market, which, being Sunday, doesn't offer much. By the way, what should we buy?
Our appetite for castles is a little weakened at the moment, so we only marvel at Inverness Castle from the outside. But we stroll through the traditional Kiltmaker, leaf through thousands of fabric samples of the different clans and still don't quite know why the Scots have such strange triple puffs hanging from their lower front belly (yes, right there!). It happens rarely, but I don't dare ask.
We discover the best in Inverness the following day: Leakey's Bookshop. The oldest and newest antiquarian bookshops are stacked on three winding floors. We immerse ourselves in the smell of books, in the curiosity of the visitors and let ourselves drift. I briefly close my eyes and am in Hogwart's secret library. And for a brief moment I feel the punishing gaze of Professor McGonagall. Until I then open my eyes and see that only someone wants to pass me in the narrow corridor.
This fantasy is something great, isn't it?
We walk to the campsite, wash our clothes, hang them up 10 times outside and 10 times inside (the weather here is magically changeable), cook ourselves something nice and look forward to the NC500, the North Coast 500, a circular road through Northern Scotland.
#Inverness #leakeysbookshop
Thx to @hiddenscotland
Merci for "travelling with us
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