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A red stone built castle of obviously differing ages. The 5 storey old keep with pepper-pot towers and flatter roof is at the right hand end. The middle section is 4 storeys and slate roofed, and the left hand end is two storeys and embattled. There are lawns with gravel drive in front, and a low wall running straight out of the picture towards us.

At one point on our Four Day North Coast 500 Tour from Inverness we stand at this pond, across which stands a building with ornate black lettering saying the Glenmorangie Distillery. The pond is reflecting trees and blue sky. On the far side the distillery building is 3 storeys, stone-built and with a corrugated metal roof.

Four Day North Coast 500 Tour from Inverness

£2,240.00 4 days

Eilean Donan Castle on the NC500 Applecross tour is across a very narrow arm of the sea. We are nearly at sea level, and a couple of hundred yards away it is built of grey stone rising from a grassy, rocky outcrop. A Scottish Flag flies on a ground mounted flagpole to the left of the castle. A large mountain clothed in coniferous forest rises behind the castle.

A single track road heads into the picture away from us. On either side is a mixture of heather, grass and boulders. Ahead, where the road turns and disappears to us, rears a vast, treeless mountain ridge, wreathed in faint suggestions of thin cloud. Its summits are clothed in light quartzite scree. A couple of waterfalls carve their way downslope like white threads. The sky above is blue.

NC500 – Applecross and Eilean Donan Castle Tour (February to October) – 10 to 11hrs

£650.00 11 hours

We are standing at one end of a long walled garden along the shore. The sea is midway up the left boundary of the picture. A tall retaining wall rises on the right of the picture. The garden paths stretch straight into the picture and a small knot of people stand on our path, about 100 yards away. Above the retaining wall, and ahead, at the end of the walled garden, are trees.

Foreground is a rough landscape of grass and boulders and four houses. Low rocky hills are in the mid-ground, and to the rear a vast, many peaked mountain, lightly dusted with snow, rises into a blue sky.

NC500 – Magical Wester Ross Tour – 8 to 9hrs

£560.00 9 hours

Dornoch Cathedral on our NC500 the North East day Tour is the main subject. Honey-coloured stone bathed in winter sunlight. A single spire, sporting a golden weathercock, rises into a blue sky. There us a clock on the spire. Trees bare of leaves occupy the foreground, together with an ornate black painted fountain, standing in shade.

The foreground is ocean. Marching in from the right, and rising diagonally across the shot are a whole line of vertical sea-cliffs, topped and also slightly covered by green grass. Just offshore are two enormous rock stacks (and both are pointed like the spires of a church. A third one is closer to us, and has not yet eroded to be seperate from the mainland. There is, however, a large sea arch at sea-level, that suggests the process is well underway.

NC500 the North East day Tour (February to October) – 10 to 11hrs

£560.00 11 hours

The picture is almost wholly a waterfall falling through the roof of Smoo Cave on the NC500 the North West day Tour. A little rock shows around the periphery of the picture, but the delicate pale blue of the waterfall falling into the dark blue of the pool at its foot occupies most of the image.

We stand on a grassy rise, looking over a dry-stone wall, two or three hundred feet above a blue sea inlet. On the distant side of the sea inlet are tiny white shapes of a line of cottages, above which grey mountains rise into cloud. Below us, from this shore, a narrow spit of grass and shingle connects the shore with a grassy rocky bluff that would otherwise be an island. On that bluff there are signs of historical quarrying, a pier, an old stone building and a single white two storey house.

NC500 the North West day Tour (February to October) – 10 to 11hrs

£650.00 11 hours

Ornate gardens and oval pond in the foreground, with retaining wall in the middle distance. Above this the gardens rise steeply, terminating in the major stone built foundations of a vast white Jacobean Chateau rising four storeys into a blue sky and multiple fairytale conical towers.

A graveyard with many monuments and gravestones occupies the foreground. Two large deciduous trees are to the left. Centre background is the sidewall of a smallish church building dating from the 14th century. The door is to the left hand end, and three gothic arched windows occupy the rest of the wall. There are bushes and trees behind it, and a blue sky above.

Rosamunde Pilcher Winter Solstice Tour – 8 to 9hrs

£550.00 9 hours

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