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Nairn
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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
Fishertown Museum
(June-Sept Mon-Sat 10.30am-12.30pm; free).
Nairn's helpful
tourist office
is at 62 King St (June-Aug daily 9am-6pm; Easter-May, Sept & Oct Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; tel 01667/452753). For
accommodation
, try Ben & Iris Murray at 53 King St in Old Fishertown (tel 01667/453798; under A?40), whose small B&B is welcoming and refreshingly kitsch-free.
Greenlawns
, 13 Seafield St (tel 01667/452738,
; A?40-50), is a spacious and friendly B&B with most rooms en suite. Other useful information
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United Kingdom,
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