The Pictish Trail runs through Easter Ross Peninsula. I’m hunting mysterious carved stones. First, I must cross the Cromarty Firth, the sole passenger on the small ferry passing the mothballed rigs, more colourful than the shadowy grey outlines glimpsed through […]
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With impeccable timing, I return to the East Coast for a yellow weather warning. It’s going to rain — a lot. Cromarty Ferry only runs in the summer, allowing a 47-mile ‘shortcut’ from Rosemarkie to Tain. I’m staying at Inverness
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Walking on roads round the Moray Firth from Cromarty to Nigg Ferry would take three days, given my lower daily mileage on hard surfaces to avoid a reoccurrence of shin splints. When I set out on my coast walk, I
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