We are spending two nights in Kenmore, a cute little village. Our hotel was originally just the right-hand building with the blue umbrellas. Since then it has expanded into the three adjacent houses by building connecting hallways between them.
This is across the street from the hotel.
Some other sites from around the village.
Close to Kenmore is the Scottish Crannog Center. Crannogs are loch (lake) dwellings from 2,500 years ago. We visited a reconstruction of one of the 18 Crannogs that were found submerged in Loch Tay. They are thought to have been individual homes to accommodate extended families and have been found in Scotland and Ireland. It is on the left in this picture.
The inside looks like this.
This is the inside of the roof.
The Center has some excellent interactive displays of the tools used in the early iron age such as lathes, drills, grain grinding, and fire starting. The guide was fantastic.
We then moved on to Dunkeld for a walk beside the River Tay to see the Hermitage. The Hermit's Cave was built around 1760 for the third Earl of Breadalbane, who unsuccessfully advertised for a permanent hermit to occupy the structure.
This is what the inside looks like.
The cathedral in town (built between 1260 and 1501) has the tomb of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, known as "the Wolf of Badenoch", who was buried there in 1405. He has a lion at his feet.
We had some very special entertainment after dinner this evening. A famous bagpiper named Gillie McNab gave us a talk about bagpipes and played several songs for us. She started on the bagpipes at the age of 15 and has been playing for 57 years. She was an excellent speaker and I thoroughly enjoyed her presentation.
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