Loch Ness

Last week I was doing my final English class project for this year, it consisted in an organized trip around Scotland, when I was doing it, I has to book a room in Inverness, a town pretty close from Ness Lake ( or Loch Ness like Scottish people named ) and I saw that exist a lot and a lot of tours around the Loch Ness, obviously because presumably Nessie, the mythological animal that lives inside them, is still diving in those cold water. In fact, this is the main case that how a curiosity can become a business.

Nessie history start in the typical Scottish tavern, anybody know where, maybe in a town next to the loch, or in Inverness, maybe in a Britain city, the important is that the fishermen who use to fish in this lake explains to the others that they saw a giant animal diving around them, along decades, a lot of people told that they saw the monster as well. The legend was growing when a photo, in 1934 showing Nessie’s head and neck, alarms the people becoming Nessie in a superstar, everyone wanted to see it and start to travel to Inverness, the biggest city close from the Lake.

In this moment, some businessman has the vision, they had to build hostels, hotels, make tours around the lake. This kind of business still working nowadays even that everyone knows that the picture made in 1934 is a big fake, even studies who prove that Nessie or their offal doesn’t exist. Exist a lot of tours, for different prices, for different hours of duration, for different kinds of ship, there are tours for 1 hour to 6 hours, from 10euros to 60, with a boat or with cruise the offer is really huge. Nessie is famous, it was made a lot of merchandising around this animal, were doing films and cartoon series, they introduce in our minds as a real phenomenon.

Anyway, the Loch Ness is a magic place, not for Nessie, is located in the amazing Britain highlands, is the second one bigger lake in Scotland, and has more water than all England and Wales lakes at once. With impressive landscapes, mix of colours, a medieval mid-ruins castle just in the coast of them, and with the characteristically Scottish weather. Loch Ness suggests us that we are in the medieval age, and for me, this is the main attractive about the lake.