Monday Military Madness

We left our Inverness B&B early in the hope of making some headway on our to-do list, but we were still in the area at lunch time!

First stop was a military base (Fort George) built in the 18th century - it was vast and the construction of it quite amazing It is still a military base today so we had to behave, but once again the human interest stories had us fascinated. It was interesting seeing the contrast between the design of the ‘modern’ Fort George and the older Norman-style castles.

Next stop was Culloden which was the last of our places related to the Border Clashes. It was a battlefield where over 1500 people, (including McPhersons) were killed in a one hour battle. They had a room set up with filmed reconstructions from both sides screening on all four walls so you had a sense of being in the middle of the battle - made the reality of hand to hand combat very vivid.

Allan is more interested than I am in all this war stuff but I have become caught up in it too (which I wouldn’t have expected!)