Meant to go to France, but Covid happened, so France got replaced with Scotland (part 2) which isn't a bad substitution (especially with only two weeks since the last holiday - this is the kind of ratio of work to holiday that I think I could deal with, particularly with two marathons in the work section). This holiday even included a bonus (flying) trip right at the start, in the middle of the Royal Dornoch Golf Course....
....a new waterproof jacket, purchased at great expense, with the reasoning that spending more money would mean it would last longer, was suddenly no longer waterproof in the left arm and had lasted approximately two weeks. My phone was no longer in one piece. My favourite leggings neither, nor my skin. What a trip!
Dornoch is a nice town. Apart from the Golf Course which, although very old (1877), world famous, and "many golfers from all over the world make the pilgrimage to this natural links at some point in their lives" , I didn't take a shine to (other than the bruise on my knee). Dornoch is a seaside town in the Highlands, and comes from the Gaelic "pebbly place" suggesting that it had pebbles the size of fists "dorns" which could be used as weapons. It is also the last place in Scotland that a "witch" was burned to death, and there is a stone in someone's back garden to commemorate the place it happened, which must just be such a lovely thing to be reminded of each time you go out to do the mowing.
Anyhow, running highlights.....
Saturday: 5 miles on Dornoch beach joined by tiny birds (I think Sandlings) running along:
Sunday: the Golf Course incident, run aborted after 2 miles.
Monday: Trip to West Coast - 5 miles, up Stac Polliadh and run on beach, see salmon jumping up waterfall.
Tuesday: happiest of birthdays, Andrew! Beach walk, new game (Croc racing), cake, 10 km run along golf course (no injuries), log fire.
Wednesday: 18 miles, up Ben Braghie, along John O Groats Trail from Golspie to Brora and back for fish and chips and Iron Bru (made from girders).
Friday: 10 mile run along the links from Dornoch to Embo, through gorse, and it rained.
Saturday: break from running for a food tour of the Black Isle, including visit to Cromarty (which is a pretty town, and off the coast the oil rig decommissioning that surrounds the town makes for an interesting, if slightly less pretty, view), and finding a cave (with cave paintings) in Rosemarkie.
Sunday: marathon along the Great Glen Way from Inverness to Drumandrochit (on Loch Ness) including Nessie sighting.
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