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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Phoebe Smith

‘Children see magic in the smallest adventures’: exploring Scotland with my four-year-old

People exploring a ruined castle on a promontory by a loch, with a very blue sky.
The ruins of 13th-century Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness. Photograph: Orietta Gaspari/Getty Images

‘There! There – I can see it!” The cries of my four-year-old echoed around the ruins of 13th-century Urquhart Castle, causing a group of US tourists to come running over to the corbelled bartizans (overhanging turrets) where we stood. “It’s Nessie, I saw her,” he insisted, pointing at the ripples spinning out from the back of a sightseeing vessel on Loch Ness.

This was day four of a budget, week-long Scotland adventure for the two of us, and we were spending the day in Drumnadrochit, on the shores of the country’s most famous body of water, looking for the fabled monster.

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