Inverness – Page 4 – John D Burns

Close encounters

I’m driving along the small twisting road that runs between Portree and the Skye Bridge. It’s late at night, very dark and, of [...]

I have decided to become one with the rain. No one told us here in the UK summer had been cancelled; they just [...]

The atmosphere at the shop counter is becoming noticeably tense. I’ve been here too long, I can tell. “That’s £1.50,” the shop [...]

Strange how you take things for granted and familiar things gets ignored, like the view from my window. I overlook the river [...]

Drumnadrochit, around 13 miles from Inverness is a great place to take your granny. There’s a fine castle, even if it’s a bit [...]

I dread rail trips, they fill me with horror. It’s not the trip itself, anyone can sit on a train staring out of [...]

Great sheets of rain are sweeping across the river Ness Just outside my window as I write this. I’m supposed to be out [...]