Thursday to Durness

A miserable forecast for today and we admitted defeat and missed all planned walks as it was too wet and windy. We've never seen so many rainbows in one day and several doubles too. The drive up to Durness was 3 and a half hours via the scenic route on the NC500 so we took it slowly and admired the views when we could.

At one point we stopped to use the loo and let the car cool down (temp rising because of the slow windy roads) and the weather changed within 2 minutes from this view;

To this;

So many rainbows;

We ate lunch in the car debating whether to risk a walk but the showers were too heavy.

Durness is the "most northerly settlement on mainland Britain". It's a fairly small, remote community but they are going all out this weekend for halloween.

We were a little early so visited Balnakiel Craft Village but lots of units  were shut. So we went onto Balnakiel Beach. I've collected loads of shells- need to get creative to use them in some way when home.

I had struggled to find an Airbnb in the area so we settled on a traditional B&B.  We can't use the kitchen but, from experience we know we won't need to eat much after a full Scottish breakfast. There is a guest lounge with TV so it will be good to watch the rugby semi final on Saturday in there.

View from the lounge with yet another rainbow!