21st September 2021 – 82 miles travelled
Today was forecast to be the best day weather wise of our whole holiday so we once again headed south on the A9. First stop was Latheronwheel harbour, not planned but saw the sign and thought why not go take a look. It was a nice little harbour with a stone beach.
Then we were off south still to Golspie.
When we got to Golspie we look up the kart track there, this is where people like David Coulthard, Allan McNish, Andrew Kirkaldy all competed when they started their motor sport careers.
As you drive into (or out of) Golspie high up on the hill you can see the Duke of Sutherland monument. The monument is to the 1st Duke of Sutherland and was built in 1836.
We stayed in Golspie for some lunch in a nice cafe, lovely bacon sandwich for me and then went a few doors down for some ice cream at Capaldi’s where I chose pear sorbet, first time I have seen it since I last had it in Paris back in 2002.
Golspie has a lovely sandy beach so we had a stroll along the beach after lunch.
On the journey back to the cottage we stopped by Helmsdale harbour. Helmsdale was a village developed around it’s harbour which was mainly herring fishing, it is still used as a working fishing harbour.
There was a lovely sunset over the loch opposite the cottage tonight.
