Scotland Travel Tips – Highlands

Getting Around:

• Train from Glasgow to Fort William is beautiful
• Bus service along Loch Ness is nice, easy, and cheap
• I once found first class train tickets from Edinburgh to Inverness for $10/person!

Things to Do and See:

• Cow Hill in Fort William is a nice easy walk

  

• Ben Nevis, Fort William – the goal for next time! Highest peak in Britain. Great views of it from Cow Hill
• Highland Experience Tours – Isle of Skye from Inverness
• Eilean Donan Castle
• Mac’s Adventures – long distance walking tours through the Highlands.  Have done GGW, hopefully tackling West Highland Way next time!
• Inverness – Leaky’s Bookstore, Ness Islands, Culloden, beware of NOTHING being open on Sundays, go to the Castle Tavern
• Drumnadrochit – Walking trails down to Ness, Nessieland gift shops, eat at Fiddlers, take the Nessie Hunter boat cruise out to see cool views of the loch and Urqhart Castle
• Fort Augustus – Convenience store for a Ninty-nine flake, walk down to Ness, check out the locks and boats, eat at Richmond House Hotel
• Invermoriston – Craft Store, Summer House, Telford Bridge, Great Glen Way high route from Fort Augustus to Invermoriston
• Gairlochy – Spean Bridge –  eat at Russell’s!

  

Where to Stay:

• Fort William – Myrtle Bank Guesthouse
• Gairlochy – Dalcomera – beautiful setting, dinner can be purchased there, or get a cab over to Spean Bridge and go to Russell’s!
• Laggan – Forest Lodge Guesthouse – cake and tea were welcome after a day of hiking. Hosts drove us to get dinner at the lodge nearby, and our waitress brought us back
• Fort Augustus – Abbey Cottage
• Invermoriston – Bracarina House or Craik na Dav
• Drumnadrochit – Greenlea
• Inverness – Glen Mohr or Inverglen Guesthouse

Will keep adding and taking suggestions!

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