Knockinnon Castle (1)
Having driven all the way up to the north coast of Caithness for a one hour meeting with a builder in a kirkyard (which turned out to be totally unproductive!), I am now on my way back south again - in fact I am going to do something I have wanted to do for a while, which is to drive the great diagonal line across Scotland, from the north-east corner of Caithness to the Mull of Kintyre.  I am not sticking exactly to that line, because I want to leave the Great Glen fault-line at Inverness and go through Aviemore and across the watershed from Speyside to Glen Spean, before rejoining the Great Glen at Spean Bridge.  

It proved to be a journey of very varied weather.  It started out nice enough although with building cloud, before I ran into a cold front coming the other way in the central Highlands, but by the time I reached Kintyre, it was in glorious sunshine again.  

There are of course some castles to visit along the way, the first of which stood in the rocky area of that field on the far side of the A9.
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