Tour Scotland Photograph The Highlanders 4th Battalion

Tour Scotland photograph of The Highlanders 4th Battalion in Scotland. The Highlanders, 4th Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS) are an Armoured Infantry Battalion. The regiment wore the Gordon tartan when in kilts and the Seaforth Mackenzie when in trews. The pipers and drummers continue to wear the regimental cap badge and kilts in the Cameron of Erracht tartan. The battalion primarily recruits from the Hebrides, the Northern Isles, the mainland counties of Inverness-shire, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness, Moray and Nairnshire, and from the traditional Gordon heartlands in Aberdeenshire. The Battalion Headquarters is located at Cameron Barracks in Inverness.



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Tour Scotland Photograph An Garbhanach

Tour Scotland photograph of a climber on An Garbhanach, Lochaber, Scotland. A Scottish mountain situated in the Mamore Forest, a few miles north of Kinlochleven. This mountain is a subsidiary peak of An Gearanach.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Flying Puffin

Tour Scotland photograph of a flying puffin on Handa Island, off the west coast of Sutherland, Scotland. Anciently Handa Island was used as a burial place, and there are still the remains of a chapel in the south east, commemorated in the name Tràigh an Teampaill, Beach of the Temple. These days Handa is noted for its birdlife, which includes puffins, razorbills and guillemots.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Climber Stac Pollaidh

Tour Scotland photograph of a climber on Stac Pollaidh, Scotland. Stac Pollaidh is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. The peak displays a rocky crest of Torridonian sandstone, with many pinnacles and steep gullies. The sandstone pinnacles are impressive and are rated in Scotland as second only to the ones on Quiraing on the Isle of Skye. They carry names such as The Sphinx, Tam o' Shanter, Andy Capp and Madonna and Child, a particularly fine example known as the Lobsters Claw partly collapsed several years ago due to natural erosion.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Home Baked Custard Creams Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of home baked Custard Creams from a wee shop in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. A custard cream is a type of biscuit popular in the British Isles. Its structure is that of a sandwich, with a creamy, custard flavoured centre between two flat biscuit layers. Traditionally, the filling was buttercream, which is still used in home made recipes, but nowadays cheaper fats have replaced butter in mass produced biscuits. The filling tastes of vanilla and as such is more akin to the taste of custard made with custard powder than egg custard. It is believed that the custard cream biscuit originated in 1908.



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