Inverness, Culloden, and the glorious Glen Affric

Exploring Britain’s northernmost city, last big battle on home soil, and loveliest glen

AFTER the Cairngorms, I arrived in Inverness, the northernmost city in Scotland and the United Kingdom, about 570 miles or more than 900 kilometres from London by road. Which is a fair old way, about the equivalent of the distance from Auckland to Christchurch. Inverness is so far north it makes Edinburgh seem rather southerly.