Northern Highlands, Scotland

We left Inverness travelling through the Northern Highlands to reach Edinburgh. We went along the 'B' roads, Mim handled the car like a rally driver over blind summits, down hidden dips, around sharp turns, watching out for oncoming vehicles in the middle of the road, not to mention the cyclists who appear from nowhere peddling like crazy on these often one lane roads.
The back roads brought us out at Crathie near Balmoral Castle. Now we knew the Queen was in residence so didn't expect to see the Castle but when we arrived at the information centre people were mulling around waiting along the fence. We then realised it was Sunday and the Queen would be going to the Sunday Church Service at Crathie Kirk across the road. So we waited too. We saw Queen Elizabeth with William in the first car and Charles and Camilla in the second car.
We then continued onto Edinburgh.Read more