Cromarty was a village (once a Royal Borough) that one could have spent a couple of days. We had a very comfortable B&B that had been in the hosts family for about 100 years. It was attached to a family owned farm which is now run by her brother. The present owner had lived in the house with her family since 1999 when she took it over from an uncle. Since the uncle had kept it in a rustic state over the years she and her husband had renovated it and kept such original features as window shutters instead of curtains. It was very tastefully done with tartan blankets and great colour coordination. After the usual substantial Scottish breakfast we found country roads that avoided main roads until we were near Inverness. Even there there were bicycle paths along or around the main road - particularly the A9. We stopped at Avoch to view the drying out harbour.
There was a dedicated bicycle path on the bridge across the Moray Firth.
From here we decided to go to the Calloden Battle museum. We had been thinking of doing it the next day after being joined by Anna - Neil’s sister. But - surprise, surprise - we had just stopped at a Tesco parking lot to have a snack and who should pull in but Anna. At that moment it had also started to rain, the first since Ullapool! We were delighted to accept a ride with Anna to the Calloden Battle museum. It rained for about an hour only. We have been very lucky with the weather and were lucky that Anna arrived to taxi us to the museum and back. It was only a short ride then into Inverness to the Youth Hostel we are staying in to-night. We cycled about 39 KM to-day - a bit less than expected thanks to Anna. She will be riding with us to-morrow as we head down the east side of Loch Ness.
This was the Hostel we stayed at in Inverness. Very well run. We had a twin bedded room with ensuite bathroom and then breakfast provided in the morning.
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