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Cromarty beach

I doubt anyone thinks of visiting Scotland as ‘going abroad’. No passports (currently!) needed to get there; you don’t need to take a plane unless you want to; don’t have to change your currency (although you will invariably bring some Scottish money home with you - we never change ours just to make sure we keep going back..) and after all aren’t we just one big happy ‘United Kingdom’ family? A free and easy border (again currently!), speak the same language and have shared so much together for centuries.
 
If you’ve not yet made your way up north to see the spectacular scenery, taste the whisky, discover that your family (despite no apparent Scottish connections!) has its own tartan , bought something in the aforementioned tartan and of course gone on a Loch Ness Monster hunt then what are you waiting for?!
 
White sandy beaches, crystal clear water, empty roads (apart from the glut of motorhomes), history, mystery, forests, mountains and wildlife everywhere. A photographers dream from oil rigs to sunsets, otters, seals and dolphins, barrels, bridges and boats. We love it!
 
So, next time you ask us where we are going on holiday, try not to look too sympathetic when we say ‘Scotland’ – so it might rain, but it might not; we might have no phone signal or wifi for a while, but we can watch a sunset or a thunderstorm; we might eat a lot of battered food, but the fish will be the freshest.

​So we’ll keep on getting our tartan blanket and trusty roadmap out and taking off to a country we love. Don’t feel sorry for us not having a foreign holiday and if we don’t come back with a tan don’t worry! We’ll be busy planning our next trip to Scotland.