Travel jnl Inverness Scotland

I Left My Heart

Tony Bennett crooned

I left my heart in San Francisco

and maybe I should sing

I left my heart in Inverness.

I don’t know what it was about the place

that made me want to unpack and stay.

The river, the bridges, the old buildings,

the castles, the churches, the ancient places,

the greenery, the friendliness, the lochs,

the history, the cleanliness, the shopping,

the closeness to Loch Ness, the Highlands,

the Culloden Battlefield, the Clava Cairns.

I didn’t visit long enough

to make the decision to move there,

but I wanted to just the same.