Where Time stands still

Scottish Highlands

Garvault House – “Mainland Britain’s Most Remote Hotel” – considering that my day started at 2 a.m. (!) driving from Ehrendingen (near Zurich) to Basel Mulhouse EuroAirport – from there flying to Edinburgh, where I picked up my rental car after my arrival – it was still before 6 a.m., even before breakfast time (!) – then starting to the long drive from Edinburgh to the North, passing Inverness following the A9 road (Scotland), then following the North Eastern coast of Ross-shire and Sutherland, and finally the slowing down on the almost endless and narrow roads (A897 and B871) across the remote backcountry of the Scottish Highlands – well – considering this never ending journey – the Garvault House certainly is “Mainland Britain’s Most Remote Hotel”. Not only Britain’s … in my opinion 😉

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Lairig Eilde.

Photoessay, 21. September 2017.

Hinauf an die Sonne.
Hinauf zu den Hirschen.
Hinauf ins Lairig Eilde.

Der Verkäufer im Store in Village of Glencoe lächelt nur mitleidig milde, als ich ihn nach dem Wetter frage. Ob es besser wird? Heute? Kopfschüttelnd meint er: “That’s Scotland.”

Schottland

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