Highland Holiday 2006 #5

**McClef** · 22nd March 07, 05:58 AM

Looking down Bridge St, Inverness.

Replacing an earlier tollbooth, the Inverness Town Steeple, dates from 1791. It rises to a height of 130 feet and suffered severe damage from an earthquake in 1816 but was later repaired.

The Green Man at Beauly, near Inverness.

Closer view of the Green Man.

The ruins of Beauly Priory.

View of Beauly town centre.

Plaque at the Priory giving information about Mary Queen of Scots' travels in the area.

More information about Beauly can be found at http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.u...uly/index.html .

These pictures have previously been uploaded on my photo blog site at www.fotothing.com/cleftref

**Big Dave** · 22nd March 07, 08:22 AM

Cool pics once again.

**cavscout** · 22nd March 07, 08:53 AM

Looks lie a very peaceful town Trefor. Thanks. I believe you were very close to Castle Fraser in that area. Did you have a chance to see it?

**McClef** · 22nd March 07, 09:07 AM

Well I hadn't heard of Castle Fraser but having checked it out it appears to be in Inverurie about 26 miles west of Aberdeen so that's some distance from the Inverness area. Aberdeen is nearly 100 miles from Inverness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Fraser

**cavscout** · 22nd March 07, 09:25 AM

True, I guess that would put it a bit further east on the map above than I realized.

**Splash_4** · 22nd March 07, 10:41 AM

Thanks for the pictures yet again! My wife and I are planning our trip for next year back to Scotland and folks keep adding things to the list. Oh, and Cavscout, we will be spending a couple of days in Aberdeen doing the genealogy thing. My family immigrated to the states from there in the mid 1800's.

**cavscout** · 22nd March 07, 10:57 AM

There seems to be a lot in that part of Scotland. I'd love to take some bikes and do the Castle Trail.

http://www.agtb.org/castletrail.htm

When we finally make the trip that is probably where we will spend mos to of the time, but I'd like to make it to the northern islands as well.

**cessna152towser** · 22nd March 07, 11:36 AM

Excellent photos again, Trefor, keep 'em coming!

**mang1974** · 22nd March 07, 11:40 AM

Your pictures keep reminding me of my trip there in 1998. Our home base was in Inverness, but we traveled to many places around there including Beauly and Elgin. Thanks for posting the pics to bring those wonderful memories back! We didn't have a digital camera back then, so I'll have to scan my pics in order to post them. Hopefully I can get around to that sometime soon.