A gorgeous garden, a canny pint and a Zizzi pizza.
Up in our new apartment, and off today for another train ride on our Spirit of Scotland rail passes, this one going west from Inverness on the train to the Kyle of Lochalsh on the west coast near Skye. We chugged through amazing forested and mountainous country, so sparsely populated it did you good to look at it after the crowded landscapes of SE England. Eventually we got off at Strathcarron station, a one track affair. We had to let the train conductor know we were getting off there as a special request. Attadale gardens was just across the road. A gorgeous place, which being on the west side of Scotland benefits from the gulf stream. Beautiful plants and flowers. There was a self service cafe there called The Midge Bite. We mooched about for a couple of hours, and then wandered back to the station where we waved down the train to take us a couple of stops further on to Plockton. En route I was called by the dentist who were expecting me, despite having cancelled the appointmen...