Strathpeffer, Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands.
I'm in a small Victorian village with a beautiful scenery and old fashioned houses. Our hotel - where I work - is truly one of them. An old wooden staircase leads up to the floors - which behaves quite strangely, you might even get lost behind one of the hidden corners... I'm not able to provide pictures, sorry, since the hotel doesn't even have a website.
However, the village is very well equipped. It has an internet cafe (I'm sitting right in the middle of it), a small shop (with a post office inside), a drugstore, a spa shop, a souvenier and antique shop, a medical center, a museum, and even cafes and public bars.
There are nice walking paths around, I'm planning to explore them soon.
The first five working days are behind me. Mostly I've been serving guests in the dining room, taking their orders, washing dishes. I have stiff back and arm muscles from carrying the plates...:-) The first two weeks I'll do basically only this, so that I can learn everything in this "area". The guests here are usually middle aged and elderly people from all over the country (with different accents!). They come by buses, no, coaches, that's what they say here.
The weather - so locals say - is quite good for the season. Sometimes it is raining, but the big clouds are running after one another very fast. We've got sunshine for two days now!
There are many seagulls in this area (very good, they are my favourite birds), their cries can almost always be heard.
The closest town where I can do bigger shoppings is called Dingwall. It has a high street with numerous shops. There is also a Tesco and a public library. I've registered myself yesterday, and have borrowed two books already to read. One of them is a Portuguese language book!!!
So far so good. I'm quite tired since everything and everyone is new to me. We'll see how the following days will turn out...