Scotland - Day 5

Day 5 never turned out as we expected, Mrs S, Josh and I headed off to Inverness, Sam and Tiana to Blackmuir Woods only they never got there. On the way hey came across a young deer without its mother caught in the roadside fencing and waited with it until the SSPCA team arrived to rescue it.
Meanwhile we three reached Inverness, first stop for Mrs S and Josh, Leaky’s Book Store. I wandered with Paddy around St Mary’s Churchyard, old as you’d expect, nice views out over the river.
Coffee and cake in the Arcade, great for small independent shops, not a “tourist pocket money shop” in sight.
Our first damp and dismal day but it didn’t deter us from having a great time. We collected some shelving for home and headed back where we met up with Sam and Tiana.

Tiana had some kitchen ‘stuff’ to do, (Birthday Cake Baking), which meant that just the four of us, with Paddy, headed off on tour of Elgin, Lossiemouth and Forres before heading home for garlic prawns and salad in flatbreads.

The extras;
A headstone in St Mary’s churchyard
Lossiemouth beach with trawler off shore
A statue tucked away in Elgin; The statue commemorates Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, called the Wolf of Badenoch, 1343 – 1394. He was a Scottish royal prince, the third son of King Robert II of Scotland by his first wife Elizabeth Mure. He was Justiciar of Scotia and held large territories in the north of Scotland.
He is best remembered for his destruction of the royal burgh of Elgin and its cathedral.

Not the walking or sunshine of previous days but another great day on our Highland Holiday.