104 - sat 12 aug - inverness / loch ness

we packed up our stuff and set off further north. it was slow going, but we made it to a town called pitlochry where we grabbed some cornish pastries for lunch that were delicious. the town was really cute so we had a wander around before setting off for inverness.

'stupid inverness and stupid closing shops' is what i have written here in my black book, thanks suz. the translation for that is, we got into inverness in the late afternoon and needed to find somewhere to buy groceries but everywhere was closed. i mean, it is saturday, but inverness isn't exactly a country town is it? anyway, completely uninterested in inverness (sorry inverness) we moved on to drumnadrochit, which is 'the' town on the bank of loch ness, home to not one but two different 'loch ness attractions'. we found a campsite, a paddock out the front of a horse riding and equestrian club, where the club smartly runs a mini camping ground during peak seasons. it was a cute location with some great rolling scottish hills around us.

in drumnadrochit there is basically 'one gig in town' when it comes to eating out, which is a pub called fiddlers. we did a brief wander around but found not one other place to eat, and when we got to fiddlers, our suspicion that it was 'the only gig in town' was borne out by the fact that the place was jammed, and that we could hardly get in for the crowd of people waiting for tables. when i say crowd i mean like 7 or 8 people, but this is the highlands, thats a crowd! no, it was crowded. i should also mention that i then spent the following few days using the term 'only gig in town' as often as possible.

fiddlers, despite being the only gig in town and therefore being in a position where it could sell really crap food and really inflated prices, was actually ace. the owner slash bartender was a really friendly guy who poured our beers while we waited for a table; for entree we had haggis which came with a dram of whisky. it was a good meal and a nice place. drumnadrochit.

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