Nairn Central Beach retains Good Beach Guide Award
The BBC reports that a number of beaches in the UK have failed to make the Good Beach Guide, after a combination of heavy rains and stormy seas resulting in less than “excellent water quality”. However, Nairn Central Beach remains listed as recommended by the MCS Good Beach Guide. Findhorn beach and Hopeman East Beach [...]
A Beautiful Day in Nairn
Today saw scattered showers but more frequent bursts of sunshine, and the air was cool but not too windy, and good to go out in. Our eldest had gone with friends to the cinema, while the youngest had gone to the community centre for a birthday party, so we wandered around with our middle child, [...]
Storm over BBC weather
One of the issues recently raised at the Visit Nairn Association was the poor reporting of Nairn’s weather, with BBC reports often inaccurate. It seems the BBC are reporting weather for Nairn from a station at Cromarty – but not only does Nairn have its own microclimate, the Black Isle itself is far wetter than [...]
Moray Coast: A Tourist Destination or not?
At the beginning of the week I went to the Visit Nairn association AGM, to see what was planned for promoting Nairn as a tourist destination. Certainly there was a lot of very constructive talk, not least with addressing some of Nairn’s most outstanding issues. I’ll admit to being cautiously optimistic (and that’s from a [...]
Nairn: Closed for Easter
At last month’s Ward Forum meeting where grievances and plans were laid out for the development of Nairn, one concern raised was that the Brae would be closed in the Easter holidays, which could affect tourist shopping for the Easter season. Firstly, the works start today and the kids go back to school tomorrow – [...]
Any places to eat out with good veggie food?
One of the frustrating things about being vegetarian is that most places only seem to offer a token veggie option, usually a pasta, mushroom stroganoff, or lasagne. We’d like to take someone out for a meal next weekend, and it would be great if we could find somewhere that does really good food, preferably with [...]
Nairn 2008: According to Flickr
Something about photos brings a sense of pathos to me – moments caught that are gone forever; people and places as they were then; time frozen in the fragility of a medium. As the internet’s biggest photo site, Flickr manages to tell a story of story of people whose lives crossed with Nairn in some [...]
SNP pushes on Lossiemouth spaceport
The BBC reports that the SNP are pushing for Richard Branson to use Lossiemouth airbase for launching Virgin Galactic’s space tourism drive. Interesting to see the SNP’s Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, has Lossiemouth in his constituency as well. I first covered the prospect of spaceflight from Lossiemouth back in September, and since then the SNP [...]
Golf View Hotel sold
The Golf View Hotel has been sold, and the new owners, Crerar Hotels, are reportedly investing £800,000 in refurbishments: Highlands seaside hotel sold off Crerar purchased the hotel from PRUPIM, the asset management arm of Prudential. The Edinburgh company has managed the Golf View, which sits close to the shores of the Moray Firth, since [...]
Inverness Aquadome closed due to fire
Only just read on the BBC News site that the Inverness Aquadome has been closed due to fire. That’s a total shame, as the Inverness Aquadome is an excellent family-friendly visit. Rather than the traditional “little pool + big pool” format of many leisure centres, it instead has a few different pools all together: – [...]