Monday day 8

We left Elgin and drove to Culloden. There was a huge battle there in 1746. It was over who should be king of England. Bonnie Prince Charlie lost and England put an end to the highland culture. It was the last shot at independence for Scotland. It significantly changed British history and was interesting. We drove on to Inverness, wandered the downtown, ate in a Scottish restaurant with a show about the history of the kilt and stayed in a pleasant house. We then went to an area with rock works that were very interesting.

I have added some miscellaneous pictures that I didn’t load before because of technical reasons.

The remnants of the cathedral in Elgin. It was called “the light of the north “. It was burned down by a highlander leader after the bishop excommunicated him. It is huge and had to be great in its day.

A shirt in the cullodon cafeteria on their staff.

Huge rocks for the base and the circle. 4000 years ago. Nobody knows how or why. They are huge piles with a path to a cleaned out center.

Interesting sign on the way to the rocks

Janet, Pete and Lola by a famous walking bridge in Inverness

Paco, Mike, Bev, Janet, Pete and Lola in Inverness on the Ness river.

Lola, Pete Bev and Janet with the Inverness castle in the background.

Fun tourist shop in Inverness

Whiskey is a huge part of the Scottish and English economy.

Bev and one of her new favorite deserts

A 1700’s building in Culross

Bev and Maria in Culross

A common farm scene. notice the cloudy day. We have had very good weather but some days it is sunny, cloudy and drizzly in the same day