Thurso is a fairly small town with just about everything you need - it has to have everything, the nearest city is Inverness and it is over 100 miles away! There is a hospital, doctors surgeries, laundry facilities, a camping site, hotels, supermarkets, etc.
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Altnaharra
Altnaharra lies in remote country approximately mid way between Lairg and Tongue and on the main road between them. This makes it an ideal rest stop between your last stop in Tongue and the next destination in Lairg.
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Lairg
Lairg is a small, picturesque, rural village situated in central Sutherland, situated between the two stops of Altnaharra and Carbisdale Castle (nr Invershin).
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Carbisdale Castle (nr Invershin)
Carbisdale Castle in not that far from the last stop at Lairg, but it's well worth making a stop here. Carbisdale Castle is, according to the Rough Guide to Scotland, "towering high above the rocky and salmon packed river...one of the most opulent Youth Hostels in the world".
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Tain
Tain, Scotland's Oldest Royal Burgh, has something for everyone. Steeped in dramatic history with beautiful scenery, magnificent architecture, abundant wildlife, sporting and leisure activities and the guarantee of a traditional Highland welcome.
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Dingwall
A rest stop at Dingwall is optional - taken by those who don't wish to cycle around the Black Isle. The Dingwall route takes you inland between Tain and Inverness.
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Culloden Battlefield
Located just 6 miles (9 km) east of Inverness, Culloden Battlefield is perhaps too close to Inverness to justify stopping for a night, but has sufficient historical interest to make it worth a day trip as you cycle on to Nairn. Culloden was the site of the final bloody defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie's 1745 uprising and the effective end of the Jacobite cause. It was also the last battle to be fought on British soil.
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Nairn
Nairn is an attractive seaside town of 11,000 people situated in a prime location on the Moray Firth coast just 16 miles east of Inverness.
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Forres
Forres, an ancient Royal Burgh Town, is situated in the North of Scotland on the Moray Coast.
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Haarlem
Haarlem developed at the cost of what once must have been a large forest: the Hout or the Haarlemmerhout (forest of Haarlem), remnants of which are still to be found directly to the south of the city centre. Here in 1423 Laurens Janszoon Coster cut out his first letters from the bark of a tree and in doing so, invented the art of printing in the Netherlands. The trees of the Haarlemmerhout have frequently been cut down and replanted. In 1426, they were cut down in order to prevent the troops of Jacoba of Bavaria from approaching the city walls without being seen. In 1572 the Spaniards besieged the city and uprooted the forest.
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