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The Capital of the North

I left the Cuthbert's onto my next destination Inverness. Claimed capital of the highlands. To be honest there really isn't much here. A small town with beautiful surroundings. I felt like a little kid on the train - watching every bit of landscape and animals as we passed. 

This time I chose an all female dorm, because there was a bit of a creeper of the male persuasion on my last night in Edinburgh. I was roomed with SE Asia triplets who were all of 17 & 18 and a super friendly German girl named Gesa... Our blonde hair blue-eyed-ness banded together to save each other from the super annoying girls in our room. She had a car, and she let me tag along THANK GOD because the Monday was a bank holiday and nothing is really accessible by walking. 

Our morning started off eventful as we searched for a place to buy coffee... We walked into a nice looking spot and ordered our coffee... As I took a gander around I got a bit of a bad feeling... There place was littered with religious belongings. He then sat us down to a little sermen before giving us our coffees telling us he used to be a permiscuous skank until he found God... And since we were late 20's unmarried with kids, travelling alone we were probably permiscuous skanks as well and that God could sort that our for us. Needless to say we took our coffees and ran our skanky asses out of there!

Next we did the Loch Ness loop and managed to get sufficiently lost while both driving and hiking a trail. We hiked to a spot was well known for it's falls... It might be super exciting for people who haven't seen a waterfall... Or you know don't live in Canada... Or didn't spent a few days in Iceland with spectacular waterfalls... But whatever I got to work off some of the copious beers I have been indulging in. We then did the super tourist thing and went and gawked at Loch Ness. To our dismay we did not catch Nessie... But the weather was overcast and a bit eerie it made for a cool experience. 

We asked our receptionist what there is to do at night in the town - her being a lifetime resident said drink... So we obliged. And that about sums up Inverness.

Pre-Hike

Loch Ness. The constant rolling clouds made it look so cool..

The "waterfall" :/

Second waterfall hike. German Gesa and I.

Such beautiful land 

More pretty highlands

Gesa & the pamphlet from our new best friend 

Just your everyday wildlife on the road






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