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- The Balnakiel Crafts Village occupies what must have been a strange and sinister military facility. Now it’s extremely charming with lovely shops and a nice cafe.
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- The only tracks on Faraid Head were those of the rarely-seen Sand Sheep, an endemic Scottish subspecies.
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- It was a cold,wet wait for the bus but luckily I’d found a somewhat gender-neutral but warm hat in the adjacent public toilet. Listen, after walking the SNT you too will not be too proud to wear a hat you found in a toilet.
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- This is the quirky youth hostel. I’d have stayed there but it was full due to some kind of annoying athletic event.
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- Spectacular beach exposures of Lewisianoid basement-derived mylonites. Er, probably. Cape Wrath behind.
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- Grip the very gravestone Jacobite prisoners from Culloden were allegedly forced to grip as they were then shot one by one with a musket resting on an adjacent gravestone.
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- Examine weird stashes of groceries left by someone or other on one of the Swallows and Amazons islands in the River Ness
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- Go home. This is not Scotland but North Norfolk, after a long train journey, walking back along the clifftop to my home and loved one. Adventures, eh?