Scotland is an amazing place and the Scots are an amazing race. We discovered half of the world and invented pretty much everything else. Okay, I exaggerate slightly but we founded the US Navy and invented golf, marmalade and Sherlock Holmes; how much more diversity do you want? The other thing that the Scots have been pretty good at is knocking lumps out of folk with very sharp objects. And when we get fed up with that, we knock lumps out of each other with very sharp objects.
This cottage looks as if it's in the most tranquil of settings, but it sits on the site of the last pitched battle on British soil: Culloden. In April 1746 a Jacobite army containing a large number of Scots charged into a Government army containing a large number of Scots. The outcome is well documented in the history books. Despite the beautiful sunny scenery on this moor above Inverness, it was impossible to stroll across the battlefield without feeling a distinct chill.
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