JOGLE 5.5 Day 2 Wed 3 Oct 12

Depart 0850 Arrived 1430 Dingwall to Inverness. Distance 15 miles.

Kirklee B&B basic and comfortable. Nice breakfast. Landlady is married to a biker who used to ride a Pan European ST1300 now rides a Harley, never mind. So it has to be good. She provided a packed lunch which we stopped and ate in a bus shelter (good old Scottish bus shelters, you just can’t beat them!) just outside Inverness at around 12. Weather has been sunny so far but is now overcast, we are expecting rain anytime soon. We arrived at Inverness around 1400, there was no one in at the Craigside Lodge Guesthouse a four star B&B so we left our bags in the porch and headed into town and bought some tissues (runny nose syndrome) and travel wash. Then we spent an hour outside Costa Coffee watching the world go past with a Latte and a Hot Chocolate. On arrival at the B&B we were greeted with a warm welcome. It is very nice, spacious and comfortable and a good shower room. Our bags had been taken up to the room by the Landlady. Craigside Lodge Guest House has superb views over Inverness and of the Castle.  Amy and her mum provided a very good breakfast. They also tumbled dried the smalls at no cost and would have washed them as well for us had we asked earlier and not followed our usual routine of rinsing clothes out in a sink. We went to Hootenany's for a Thai meal on the basis that we're not likely to see a Thai restaurant for a week because of the remoteness of places we were staying in. They had live entertainment but by the time it was going to start we were already tucked up in bed by 2130 and competing in the world class snoring competition.