Nairn, United Kingdom Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

One of the driest and sunniest places in the whole of Scotland, NAIRN , sixteen miles east of Inverness, began its days as a peaceful community of fishermen and farmers. The former spoke Gaelic, the latter English, allowing James VI to boast that a town in his kingdom was so large that people at one end of the main street could not understand those at the other end. It boasts two championship golf courses, and Thomas Telford's harbour is filled with leisure craft rather than fishing boats. Nearby, amid the huddled streets of old Fishertown – the town centre is known as new Fishertown – is the tiny … more »