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Day 7: Wick–Inverness

107 miles on fast coastal roads

You’ll be navigating the flatter, drier and sunnier east coast on your final day and this is one day where it’s easy to move a bit quicker.

You can get to Inverness in about two hours, so do so if you fancy spending longer there.

If you’re driving this stretch in mid-August, you should check the dates for Lairg Sheep Market and probably do a little detour there if it’s on as it’s an usual enough event.

Dunbeath Castle, Scotland


The sequence of points-of-interest along the route is: Wick - Dunrobin Castle - Golspie - Royal Dornoch - Tain - (Lairg Sheep Market) - Tarbat

Dunrobin Castle

French-style palace & gardens

Golspie

Hiking & biking in the shadow of the laird

Lairg Sheep Market

Europe's largest sheep market (mid-Aug)

Royal Dornoch Champ'ship Course

Classic seaside golf, but a bit remote

Tain

Pilgrimages, whisky & whisky pilgrimages

Tarbat Discovery Centre

Pictish culture & art

Wick

Where once the herring boomed

Text © Christian Williams

Images by Colin Horn on Unsplash, Thincat