Inversnecky’s guide to Inverness in the summer-time
At bloody last, summer (of a fashion) has arrived in Inverness, and with it, the start of the Easter holidays and the beginning of the tourist season.
The Highland Capital is now resplendent with life and sunshine, and to commemorate this once-in-a-year event, Inversnecky is proud to bring any passing visitors to the town city our guide to the top sights of Inverness worth taking in:
- The Castle. No you can’t go in. No it’s not that old. Yes it’s pink.
- Riverside views. This time next year, work might have begun on the flood defences, so enjoy the view of the river while you can.
- Scotland’s finest and largest collection of roadworks, streetscaping and other engineering detritus.
- More barbers and hairdressers per square mile than any other conurbation in the northern hemisphere.
- Albert Roux’s brand new restaurant: no doubt top notch cuisine, but will they be able to use the apostrophe correctly on their menus and provide half-decent service, unlike most other eateries in town?
- A statue with magical, brain-capturing properties that attracts Goths and Emos to its steps.
Readers are invited to contribute their own favourite features of Inverness, using the comments box below…
April 3, 2009 at 7:39 pm
7. Several empty retail units in the centre of town for visitors considering moving to the Highlands and setting up shop in it’s thriving business district.
April 3, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Sorry. Clearly that should have read ‘retail units in the heart of the city’. I’m embarrassed….
April 6, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Thank you, thank you for number 5…and here I thought I was the only person in the ‘city’ that actually cared about the apostrophe. (Clearly Noanie, above, has not learned this either.) Long may we continue to quietly seethe among the harrowing examples of wayward grammar.
April 14, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Re number 6.
Many years ago Douglas Adams of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy commented on the shoe event horizon, when every second shop was a shoe shop.
Methinks were near the coffee shoppe event horizon!
May 8, 2009 at 6:19 am
Highland Council have received a boost with a new sponsor in the form of Tampax. A spokesman for the
company said.
” Sponsoring a bunch of c*#/s going through a really bad period seemed an ideal way to promote our product”.