Oooo cool idea for a topic.
Which bit of the highlands are you from? I've spent a lot of time walking and climbing about Scotland and now live here so i may have heard of the place.
There is some really amazing scenery here in this country, some of the best looking in the world.
Here's a photo i took over xmas of the hill behind my girlfriend's house in Perthshire. Its called Carn Liath. The lake was totally frozen and those white things are a flock of swans that were sat on it!
As far as my relatives go, i know that my great grandfather on my father's side was with the first British troops to go to the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan. So i guess he's partly to blame for some of the trouble we're in now!