Scotland- the highlands

Before the weather turned into a proper winter Matt and I went on a tour of the Highlands and Orkneys.
The scenery there is really breathtaking and it’s very remote.

There is an amazing hanging valley carved out by glaciers thousands of years ago.


The highlight would have to have been Scara brae in the Orkneys.
Scara Brae is a 4500-year-old village with flushing toilets. (They used the tides to clean away the mess!)

It is extremely well preserved as it had been buried under sand until 1850, when a big storm unearthed it.







On the last night of the tour we stayed in a Castle, which was absolutely huge. (I kept getting lost.)

And on the last morning we went swimming in Loch Ness (lucky for us there were no monster sightings, though is was a pretty cold grey day.
We were so cold after our swim that we had to drop by a distillery and try some samples of Scotch to get the warmth back in.