We arrived in Inverness about 10 minutes early. I know I’ll get in trouble
for this, but it felt like a third world arrival!! No jetway from the aircraft
to the terminal, no coach, we had to walk!! Not only did we have to walk it was cold, well 5C (41F). We were led past the arrivals terminal and about 150 yards further on into the International terminal. This was a little worrying as I had no idea the Scotland had separated from England during our flight! We went past the unmanned immigration booths into the baggage reclaim area. This didn’t seem right. We were the only arrival at the airport, but it still took over 30 minutes for the bags to come off the plane. At least ours were in the first 5 off. We then walked through the unmanned customs area and back the 150 yds to the main terminal building! It appears they close down all the services in the main building in the evening and use the pokey little hole call International arrivals instead.
We grabbed our rental car and headed off to our B&B. This we had a small,
but comfortable room and managed a good 10 hours of sleep last night, which was very welcome. Breakfast was a good “full English” (google it if you’re over the pond!). We then headed out to meet with one of Lyn’s brothers who lives in Inverness. I guess I should mention the main reason for the trip. Lyn’s eldest brother and wife are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, which has also become a family reunion.
From Inverness we headed South(ish) 60 miles to Spean Bridge where Lyn was born and where David, her eldest brother still lives. This involved a trip along Loch Ness, but it was obviously too cold for Nessie to put in an
appearance. Lyn was overjoyed to be back in the Scottish Mountains!
We arrived in Spean and grabbed some lunch, then headed to the guest house, our home for the next week. This guest house was built and operated by Lyn’s Aunt and Uncle about 60 years ago. The new owners were interested to hear some of the stories from the dark ages.
Later we went to visit David and Liz, and then met them for dinner in the
evening at one of the local hotels.
Only a couple of pictures so far, the view from out room looking towards the mountains and Ben Nevis.
