John O'Groats

Drove up the east coast to John O'Groats. Beautiful coastline along the way. John O'Groats was a bit of an anticlimax. You had to pay to have a photo taken next to the post with distances on it and have your place of origin put on it. Lots of souvenir and craft shops, though it was fairly quiet.


We kept on driving to Dunnett Point the northernmost point on mainland Britain. Unfortunately there was a lot of cloud and as such we could not see anything. From there we drove on to Thurso where we had lunch.


Then made our way to Durness, our stop for the night, again more beautiful coastline and lochs along the way. This is also where the single lane roads started with passing places every so often.


Once we got to Durness, we made our way to the B&B, only the GPS pointed us to the wrong one but the lady was helpful and directed us to the right one. The B&B we were staying at had lots of kids which was different for a B&B (lots of kids footsteps outside our bedroom).

It was cold and starting to fog up a bit.

(not sure when we did this) Stopped at Smoo cave, there was also a tour group there who wasn't dressed for walking.


We had dinner at a seafood restaurant. We also drove to the nearby town B??? which had a nice beach and craft village. There were some crazy people swimming.

Not sure when we saw these highland cows now, but they were so cute we had to stop and take some photos!