Friday 5th October – distance travelled 62 miles
We woke up to find for the first time this week it wasn’t raining!
The plan was to go to Helmsdale and Dunrobin castle, the SatNav started off sending us in the wrong direction so had to turn around.
Decided the drive to Helmsdale was a lone one and the coast was so pretty so carried on the coast road to Thurso.
For lunch in Thurso we went to Johnson’s where we both had potato soup and a bread roll with a cake to take away. After lunch we had a walk around the town before heading back to the car.
On the way back we went to the seafront in Thurso which was very windy. From here could see out to the Orkney’s and a rainbow kept coming and going. A man out walking his dog told us about a Banksy, not sure if it is a real one of not.
We passed the nuclear power station at Dounreay and took a detour through Castlehill which was really pretty before getting back to Bettyhill.
Tonight we had fajitas to use up some of the shopping we had left before starting to pack up the kitchen and our suitcase ready to leave tomorrow.