The new John O’Groats

This is part of a short series of posts I wrote about a July 2017 road trip from Inverness northwards along the east coast of the Highlands, culminating in a visit to the abandoned island of Stroma. See all my posts on the overview page.

I always used to feel sorry for people doing Lands End to John O’Groats, the famous end to end journey from the bottom to the top of mainland Britain. Indeed, I always used to feel sorry for people going to John O’Groats from anywhere.

It was bad enough, I re...