Caithness and the northern section of the NC500

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Caithness and the northern section of the NC500

Food Scene

Great for celebrations - takes pride in providing Highland specialties for every kind of diner including vegetarians and vegans.
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Mackays Hotel
Union Street
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Great for celebrations - takes pride in providing Highland specialties for every kind of diner including vegetarians and vegans.
Welcoming Bistro with imaginative food at the very end of the Land's End to John o'Groats trail
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Stacks Coffee House and Bistro
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Welcoming Bistro with imaginative food at the very end of the Land's End to John o'Groats trail
A great place just outside Wick - perfect for lunches, and with a lovely gift shop. Popular with the people who live in the area, so best to book.
Puldagon Farm Shop & Restaurant
A great place just outside Wick - perfect for lunches, and with a lovely gift shop. Popular with the people who live in the area, so best to book.
Owned and run by the great cooks at the Whaligoe Steps Cafe, the Printers Rest serves delicious food in the evenings most nights a week. Best to phone to book.
The Printers Rest
Owned and run by the great cooks at the Whaligoe Steps Cafe, the Printers Rest serves delicious food in the evenings most nights a week. Best to phone to book.

Parks & Nature

Noss Head's cliffs are impressive from the top - they are breathtaking from the sea. See puffins and other seabirds at the right time of year, not to mention seals, porpoises and orcas if you are lucky.
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Caithness Seacoast Ltd
Harbour Road
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Noss Head's cliffs are impressive from the top - they are breathtaking from the sea. See puffins and other seabirds at the right time of year, not to mention seals, porpoises and orcas if you are lucky.
See the birds and the Flow Country at the RSBP centre
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Forsinard Flows
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See the birds and the Flow Country at the RSBP centre

Sightseeing

The Queen Mother's home in the far North of Scotland is a spectacular Castle with impressive grounds. Dunrobin Castle between Brora and Golspie is if anything even more impressive and has it's own railway station. As you do.
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메이 성과 정원
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The Queen Mother's home in the far North of Scotland is a spectacular Castle with impressive grounds. Dunrobin Castle between Brora and Golspie is if anything even more impressive and has it's own railway station. As you do.
Caithness's stone age sites include the Hill o'Many Stanes, Camster Cairns and countless Brochs. Find out how people lived here thousands of years ago.
Hill O' Many Stanes
A99
Caithness's stone age sites include the Hill o'Many Stanes, Camster Cairns and countless Brochs. Find out how people lived here thousands of years ago.
Be sure to visit at least one distillery while you are here. Rock Rose make prize-winning gin. There's also Old Poultney in Wick and Wolfburn just outside Thurso, and John o'Groats Brewery
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Rock Rose Gin
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Be sure to visit at least one distillery while you are here. Rock Rose make prize-winning gin. There's also Old Poultney in Wick and Wolfburn just outside Thurso, and John o'Groats Brewery
You can see the romantic ruins of Castle Sinclair Girnigoe from the Kitchen window. Walk back in time and visit some of Scotland's most Horrible Histories. Be sure to walk down to nearby Sandigoe Beach where the stores for the Lighthouse were llanded and winched up to Noss Head .
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Castle Sinclair Girnigoe
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You can see the romantic ruins of Castle Sinclair Girnigoe from the Kitchen window. Walk back in time and visit some of Scotland's most Horrible Histories. Be sure to walk down to nearby Sandigoe Beach where the stores for the Lighthouse were llanded and winched up to Noss Head .
There's more to John o'Groats than the sign-post! Take a tour of the Brewery, try a whisky tasting at the Distillery, eat at one of the cafes, buy art from local artists at Ortak, or just get a souvenir in one of the shops.
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존 오 그로츠 사인포스트
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There's more to John o'Groats than the sign-post! Take a tour of the Brewery, try a whisky tasting at the Distillery, eat at one of the cafes, buy art from local artists at Ortak, or just get a souvenir in one of the shops.
The walk to Duncansby Stacks is a must for great photos and the chance to see puffins in the season - just a mile or so from John o'Groats
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Duncansby Stacks
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The walk to Duncansby Stacks is a must for great photos and the chance to see puffins in the season - just a mile or so from John o'Groats

Arts & Culture

Caithness is home to some of Scotland's most talented artists, some home-grown and some attracted here by the open skies and light. Caithness Horizons curates regular exhibitions of some of their best work.
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Caithness Horizons Museum and Art Gallery
High Street
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Caithness is home to some of Scotland's most talented artists, some home-grown and some attracted here by the open skies and light. Caithness Horizons curates regular exhibitions of some of their best work.
See the history of Noss Head Lighthouse at the heritage centre in Wick.
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Wick Heritage Museum
20 Bank Row
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See the history of Noss Head Lighthouse at the heritage centre in Wick.
If you like hand-thrown poettery or ceramic sculpture, be sure to visit Jenny Mackenzie Ross in Latheron. And drop into the cafe and craft centre at Forse opposite the pottery on the A99.
North Shore Pottery
If you like hand-thrown poettery or ceramic sculpture, be sure to visit Jenny Mackenzie Ross in Latheron. And drop into the cafe and craft centre at Forse opposite the pottery on the A99.

Drinks & Nightlife

The intimate music venue in the old school at Lyth hosts small theatre productions and some of Scotland's best musicians.
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Lyth Arts Centre
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The intimate music venue in the old school at Lyth hosts small theatre productions and some of Scotland's best musicians.

Shopping

A lot of the pictures in the cottage came from this little gallery in Thurso which showcases some of Caithness's talented artists. Buy presents for friends or treat yourself.
Coo's Tail Gallery
33 Olrig St
A lot of the pictures in the cottage came from this little gallery in Thurso which showcases some of Caithness's talented artists. Buy presents for friends or treat yourself.

Getting Around

Busses from Wick go to Orkney and Inverness, and nearer destinations like John o'Groats and Thurso,.
Bus Terminal station
Busses from Wick go to Orkney and Inverness, and nearer destinations like John o'Groats and Thurso,.
Known locally as "Bank's Boat" the Pentland Ferry is an independent company taking foot passengers and vehicles to Orkney.
Port of Gills Bay station
Known locally as "Bank's Boat" the Pentland Ferry is an independent company taking foot passengers and vehicles to Orkney.