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Leakey's Bookshop: No Catalogue, No Problem
Charles Leakey's desk looks like a bomb hit it, and there's no catalogue anywhere in the building. Ask for a book anyway — any one of a hundred thousand — and watch what happens.
4 min read
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Inverness
The Highland capital, given the same depth everyone else saves for the loch.
Alan Coppin · Updated 4 weeks ago
Most guides treat Inverness as a car park with a castle — somewhere to sleep before the real trip starts. That's a mistake. The city rewards a proper day: an under-rated covered market, a genuinely good whisky scene, and river walks that beat half the 'must-see' viewpoints out of town.
This pillar gives Inverness the same attention as Loch Ness, because it deserves it.
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The Mustard Seed: Dinner in an Old Kirk
A converted church on the River Ness, a menu that leans into Highland ingredients, and — if you're not careful with your booking site — maybe someone else's table.
4 min read
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Perk: The Coffee Shop That Turned Into a Friendship
A Church Street café known for doughnuts that sell out by lunch and coffee people genuinely rave about — and, for us, the place where a round of margaritas turned into many Highland adventures.
6 min read
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Craig Phadrig: The Forest With No Wrong Way Through
A wooded hill on Inverness's western edge holds a fort that's over two thousand years old — but the real pull, evening after evening, is the tangle of paths that gets you there.
5 min read
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Eden Court: The Bishop's Chapel Is Backstage Now
A bishop's old home, a theatre the town wasn't sure it could afford, and a rebuilt arts centre — and across a year of very different nights out there, we've yet to find an empty seat.
5 min read