Inverness - Etape Loch Ness

24th to 27th April 2026

Part 1 - Travel & Inverness

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A weekend trip to Inverness for the Loch Ness Sportive and some general tourist wandering

At Kings Cross waiting for the board to show our platform for the 2nd leg of our journey to Edinburgh...

Kings Cross

Miche taking on the 3-train, all-day journey like a pro...

Overwhelmed

We changed trains at Edinburgh and headed through the Highlands to Inverness...

Train view 1

Stark but beautiful...

Train view 2

We finally arrived at 20:07 and headed to the hotel via the Co-Op; view of the River Ness from the hotel room the next morning...

Hotel view

Miche, River Ness and Inverness Castle...

Miche and castle

Inverness Castle...

Inverness Castle 1

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Inverness Castle 2

Miche on a bridge as we headed into the city centre after registering for tomorrow's ride...

Miche on a bridge

One of a pair of figures outside the Town Hall...

Town Hall 1

Inverness Town Hall...

Town Hall 2

Miche heading up to the recently renovated Inverness Castle...

Miche and Castle

View of the snow fields on the Cairngorms...

View from the Castle 1

View to St Andrew's Cathedral...

View from the Castle 2

Miche in the Castle Cafe...

Castle Cafe

Looking downstream on the River Ness...

River Ness 1

River Ness and Castle...

River Ness 2

Miche about to take a photo of some idiot who needed to clean his shoes in the river...

Miche

The idiot...

Idiot

Up close...

Up close

Fly Fisherman upstream...

Fly Fishing

Delicious winner of the Camra Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2025 at The Castle Tavern...

Beer

Dusk...

Dusk 1

Off to bed for a super-early start the next morning, I was due in my start pen ay 06:20...

Dusk 2

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