Ruthven Barracks

We were going to climb up Cairngorm today but the weather was rather dreich so instead we’ve done a walk around Kingussie.

Having parked the car we walked to Ruthven Barracks in the rain. I’d been here before when the children were young.

Ruthven Barracks were built by George II's government in the early 1700s after the failed Jacobite uprising of 1715.

See the extra to see how remote it is. It was destroyed by the Jacobites after the battle of Culloden in 1746.

After a coffee and lunch we walked up a hill out of Kingussie along a river. The fast flowing river had powered a hospital in the 1920s and the Kingussie Community Development Company, a charity have re-established it. It now feeds the golf course and any surplus is sold back to the grid. Any funds received will be used for community projects.

For dinner we’ve eaten anything left in the fridge as tomorrow we drive back.

We’ve had a great holiday.