Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

Sep 23, 2006

19th September: Cromarty

Filed in Britain 2006

Dad and I took a morning drive down to Cromarty, one of my favourite places in this neck of the wood. I got GPS coordinates for old snarfs, and even found a new one. It was quite nice when sheltered, but cold enough to make my ears ache in the wind. We gave up when the driving rain began. ;-)

To give an impression of Cromarty, it is a tiny place that can be walked through in 10 minutes, yet it has over 100 listed buildings and structures of varying kinds! It’s an old fishing village, with many of the cottages still intact and lived in.

From top to bottom:

Boats in the harbour; they were making quite a racket with their bells blowing in the wind, like a bucketload of wind chimes.

Pretty bench. It needs an old romantic couple to fill it, holding hands as they share their stories.

Look who came to see me?

Cromarty Lighthouse, built in 1848 by Alan Stevenson, who I think was uncle to Rober Louis Stevenson. RLS broke ranks to become an author, everyone else made lighthouses and/or were engineers.

Could you imagine a smaller post office?!