Wick; Saturday, 02 May, 2015

I headed out of the B&B early and had a wander up above the harbour and onto the headland leading away from the town centre and towards the castle. I didn’t want to walk too far as I was booked on a tour of the town’s distillery at 11, so about halfway round to the castle I headed up a convenient path back into the top of town, coming out right by the distillery.

It turned out that nobody else wanted the 11am tour so I got a personal guided tour of the Old Pultney distillery followed by a tasting of their very fine whiskey.

Feeling slightly tipsy I headed back down the path to the headland walk and continued on round to the ruins of the castle to have a look around that.

From the castle I headed back in towards town with a bit of a dilemma as I’d pretty much done everything there is to see in Wick, so I decided to hop on the bus and head round the long way via John O’Groats and the Pentland Firth coast into the neighbouring big town of Thurso.

In Thurso I visited the Caithness Horizons museum and had a bit of a wander around before it was time to hop on a more direct bus back to Wick across the countryside, rather than round the coast.

The bus dropped me off right outside a nice looking Indian restaurant, so I had dinner there before heading back to the B&B