A day out in Cromarty
May. 20th, 2018 06:35 pmDinner at the Cromarty Arms was perfectly acceptable haddock and chips, and Happy Chappy "New Wave" pale ale from the Cromarty Brewing Co. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
durham_rambler drinks pints, and therefore gets an elegant branded glass, but my half is not worthy, and comes in a glass promoting Caledonia Best. This isn't by any stretch a gastropub (the kitchens close at eight) but it does have a long gin menu. I still can't quite process the fashionability of gin...
A short after-dinner walk around the town (which also permitted us to book into the fancy restaurant for tonight), an evening session with the guide books back in our room, a conversation with our host over breakfast, and we knew what we wanted to do with today.
So this morning we went for a walk, a circuit known as the '100 Steps' - because there literally are a large number of steps in the path, though I didn't actually count them. I'll save the details for a photo post, but it was a pleasant climb through woodland up to a viewpoint over the Firth, and then a bit of a grind back down the road. Plenty of flowers in the woods: violets and primroses and wood sorrel, oh, my! And although it was not a long walk (4 miles, according to my guide book) it's so long since I've done any walking at all that I was quite proud of myself!
Lunch at Coupers Creek (the café version of Sutor Creek, where we will eat tonight) restored me enough to visit Hugh Miller's birthplace, which turned out to be a museum of two halves: before you are admitted to the thatched cottage in which the great man was born, you go round the house next door in which he later lived, and where there is an exhibition explaining why he is important (pioneering geologist; founder member of the Free Church). This is a good idea, though they could improve the junction between the two, which was unnecessarily cumbersome. Here's a pretty tribute from the 'museum' half:
(I seem to have reset my camera to take small pictures - curses! I have re-reset it). A quick visit to the pottery, and then home. I still haven't made it to the lighthouse, but since it is in the town, we should manage that on our way out to dinner.
durham_rambler drinks pints, and therefore gets an elegant branded glass, but my half is not worthy, and comes in a glass promoting Caledonia Best. This isn't by any stretch a gastropub (the kitchens close at eight) but it does have a long gin menu. I still can't quite process the fashionability of gin... A short after-dinner walk around the town (which also permitted us to book into the fancy restaurant for tonight), an evening session with the guide books back in our room, a conversation with our host over breakfast, and we knew what we wanted to do with today.
So this morning we went for a walk, a circuit known as the '100 Steps' - because there literally are a large number of steps in the path, though I didn't actually count them. I'll save the details for a photo post, but it was a pleasant climb through woodland up to a viewpoint over the Firth, and then a bit of a grind back down the road. Plenty of flowers in the woods: violets and primroses and wood sorrel, oh, my! And although it was not a long walk (4 miles, according to my guide book) it's so long since I've done any walking at all that I was quite proud of myself!
Lunch at Coupers Creek (the café version of Sutor Creek, where we will eat tonight) restored me enough to visit Hugh Miller's birthplace, which turned out to be a museum of two halves: before you are admitted to the thatched cottage in which the great man was born, you go round the house next door in which he later lived, and where there is an exhibition explaining why he is important (pioneering geologist; founder member of the Free Church). This is a good idea, though they could improve the junction between the two, which was unnecessarily cumbersome. Here's a pretty tribute from the 'museum' half:
(I seem to have reset my camera to take small pictures - curses! I have re-reset it). A quick visit to the pottery, and then home. I still haven't made it to the lighthouse, but since it is in the town, we should manage that on our way out to dinner.
