Wet and Wild; Sheep Outnumber People and the Elements Are Unforgiving - but You Don't Need Blue Skies and Soaring Temperatures to Make the Beaches of Sutherland Beautiful, Finds Victoria Brookes
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When visitscotland.com describes Sutherland as "a vast wilderness", it's not joking. I thought I'd seen most of what Scotland has to offer: mountains, check. Lochs, check. Beaches, check. But the Northern Highlands are altogether different - miles and miles of barren moorland inhabited by sturdy sheep and not a lot else. In fact, the human population of Sutherland is tiny - fewer than 14,000 people live in an area of more than 2000 sq miles.
Having never been further north than Aviemore, I decided it was time to try out a new bit of Scotland and headed to Tongue for the weekend (about as north as you can get on the mainland, give or take a few miles). We spent a few happy hours speeding up the A9 before suddenly finding ourselves north of Inverness on the A836, a single track road with passing places. It winds through gently undulating moorland with the odd glimpse of mountain, loch and waterfall. Catching sight of a lone fisherman catching his dinner on one of the small lochs we passed, we decided it was a far better way to spend a Friday evening than slumped in front of yet another Friends repeat.See the full content of this document
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Wet and Wild; Sheep Outnumber People and the Elements Are Unforgiving - but You Don't Need Blue Skies and Soaring Temperatures to Make the Beaches of Sutherland Beautiful, Finds Victoria Brookes
After almost six hours on the road we were in need of a stiff drink and a warm welcome, and found both at the Tongue Hotel. Built as the Duke of Sutherland's...
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