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Today’s trivia is the high seas way to Shetland: Not sure how you work out which is your house if drunk . . . First port of call was Crathes Castle, and guess what? Free parking, free entry thanks to National Trust  membership and free self guided tour of castle and grounds. HGiT? Would have…

Today’s trivia is Slaine Castle: Yes, you’re correct, the fan started again, around 6am! Front desk said nothing can be done as your fan is linked to that on the roof. He said harden up princess and then gave me that blank look! Surely not . . . The day continued at the Union Square…

Today’s trivia is on Aberdeen, our staging post for countless murder mysteries: At checkout, I queried about or bill, but just got a blank stare! First stop was at Rait Castle, an A Grade historical site. Then it was off to Brodie Castle, arriving at 10:25. Parking was free, entry was free and the guided…

Today’s trivia is me, one of the 1,790,000 tourists in the highlands each year and growing: The tesla guys told us it’ll be up and running tomorrow morning . . . The hotel staff told us you’ll see seals at the Loch Fleet National Nature Reserve. So we headed off, even though high tide was…

Today’s trivia is on Brora: Our room is huge and the . . . There’s a sea gull nest at the top of the chimney and we can hear everything that’s going on in the nest! The weather says, do something indoorsie, so we headed off to Dunrobin Castle, a spritly 8min drive away. Google…

Today’s trivia is on deer: I just hate that, it is so hotchpotch potch and not a good look to have random seat types. I’ve curtailed my 6 plate breakfasts to just two, but that hasn’t helped with my weight! We saw only two Ross deers even though told to go cross country and not…

Today’s trivia is on the Tongue Hotel, seeing there’s no other notable trivia: We didn’t read the very small fine print, coffee was extra at £3 each for no matter what type of coffee, single or double espresso, cupacchino, etc. The highlights of Tongue are listed in the hotel info sheet, so we took a…

Today’s trivia is on Tongue: and the Scottish Tongue . . . We took the 500 mile route. Along the way, needed a 🚽. Stopping at The Bothy in Strathcarron as I needed to . . . It was reasonable hot chocolate but £1 more than needed and 2IC went too, so that’s £2 more.…

Today’s trivia is on Dunvegan Castle: It was a super late start of 0931hrs and we arrived at Dunvegan Castle at 1002hrs . . . There’s the castle, grounds, gardens and a boat trip to be had. So we did a B-line to the boat. Three spots left. HGiT and we shared with a French…

Today’s trivia is on Skye’s capital Portree: Seriously, interior designers and bean counters shouldn’t be allowed to design hotel guests bedrooms and facilities . . . We set off on a tour of the top north-east of Skye. First stop was The Fairy Glen and  astlr Ewen. Next was a few non descript spots such…