1000 Places to See Before You Die 19 - Loch Ness, Scotland
This was another stop on the 2005 Interrail trip. I really hit a lot of good places on that trip! This was my first big trip planned by myself however, so our planning skills were not really fully developed, and we started out just finding places to stay when we got to our destination. Not a good idea! We turned up at the Loch Ness hotspot only to find that the ONLY hostel in the area was fully booked for that night. So we spent a few hours by the lake, taking pictures and desperately trying to plan ahead for the night, having learnt our lesson. We ended up staying in Fort William, a cute little town about an hour and a half’s drive from Loch Ness. Loch Ness is of course famous because of Nessie, the reputed sea monster living in the depths of the sea. It was first spotted in 565 AD by St. Columba and has since captured the imagination of every monster-loving person on Earth. The legend of Nessie really took root in the 1930s, when a number of people claimed to ha...