Cottage Diary - Aspenwood self catering luxury Holiday Cottage overlooking Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland.

Along with other members of the group, we attended the official launch of the new Destination Management Organisation [DMO] for Loch Ness and were piped aboard the 'Jacobite Legend' cruise ship at The Clansman Harbour. We listened to a variety of speakers address the DMO in a bid to secure World Heritage Status for Loch Ness and the Great Glen. If successful, the bid will place Loch Ness and the Great Glen alongside the Grand Canyon, Great Barrier Reef, the Taj Mahal and Scotland's own New Lanark and the Old City of Edinburgh, as one of 830 of the world's finest heritage sites.

After all the informative talk, we enjoyed a glass of champagne and canapes on the top deck in glorious sunshine and temperatures of 18 degrees. The Jacobite Legend then took us on a trip to Urquhart Castle where we saw her sister ship 'The Jacobite Queen' taking passengers to the castle and back to Inverness.