Tuesday - Day 26 - Invergordon, Scotland - part 1

On Tuesday, we arrived at Invergordon, the gateway to access Inverness, the capital of the Highlands, as well as nearby Loch Ness.

It was cloudy when we arrived.

Looking west up the Firth -- there are facilities here for supporting oil platforms as well as sea-based wind turbines

Looking east out the Firth

Looking in toward the city

After we got off the ship, we stopped by the pier side tourist information office to get a map and took a picture of their sign... bummer! Off by just one day for seeing Nessie!!!

There was a pier side souvenir store too -- Carl tried on a "Driving Cap" made of official Harris Tweed, but decided it was a bit more expensive than he wanted to spend (about $50), and, since it was made of wool, it would have been hot, which we rarely need.

We found teeshirts that we liked and might get as we returned to the ship later in the day -- if we hadn't found something else that we liked better.

In front of the pier side souvenir store

As we got off the pier, we could look up the street and see a church at the end.

We got up to the High Street...

There were a number of murals in town -- I told Carl that if he had gotten the Driver's Cap, we wouldn't be able to distinguish him from the figures on the mural!

On the High Street, we went into a grocery store...

Carl remembers the Ovaltine factory being in Villa Park, less than a mile from where he grew up.

Tempting! (Biscuits = cookies)

Hot dogs in jars!

"Richmond" are a popular brand of sausages in the UK

Canned hot dogs

Cereal offerings -- this store was interesting in that it had the refrigerated/frozen items on every aisle, at below waist level, and the shelf stable items on shelves above the refrigerated storage.

Chips

Some people go to museums and learn things... other go to grocery stores and take pictures!!!

We saw a "Nickel & Dime" store across the street and went to check it out.

Next to the Nickel and Dime was a mural honoring the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

It turned out that the Nickel & Dime was almost like a Walmart in a much smaller space!

Carl found a Scotland teeshirt that he liked, and a driver's cap made out of cotton instead of wool, *and* it matches the plaid of his flannel!

We managed to resist buying these lamps with light-up messages...

If we ever come back to the UK and rent a car, we should get these "Learner" magnetic signs to put on our rental car to warn people to give us a wide berth!

Maybe we have these in the US too, but I don't remember seeing "Wheelie Bin Numbers" before!

More from Tuesday in another post!