Month: September 2021

Fairy pools, fairy glens …Scotland has all things fairy. Long-ish drive this morning in the fog, which was quite thick at times. The roads were nearly all single track with a few potholes. The good thing is, there are loads

Very windy in the night and rain this morning. Drove towards Dunvegan Castle…a very scenic drive. We think we saw a Golden Eagle along the way, but couldn’t get the binoculars focused quickly enough.🙄Stopped off at The Oyster Shed at

Glad we didn’t follow our original plan and try to walk to the Fairy Pools from this mornings location at Sligachan. Would have been five and a half miles each way but somehow up and over the Cuillin mountain range.

Good sleep in the lay-by. Bit of rain this morning on and off. Guy went go get some more photos of the beach at Morar as we were parked close by. Drove up to Mallaig, then couldn’t park and we

Left the campsite and drove up the road a couple of miles to one of the ‘day time only’ car parks by the coast. The weather looked like it was clearing up, so we went for a little walk along

Forced to get up early 😴😢and relocate, pre shower, to the Glenfinnan Visitor Centre so that we could get a parking place for the mornings photo shoot. The Jacobite express runs a couple of times a day over the Glenfinnan

All the stuff to do today! Water, toilet, drain, diesel, Lidl and Morrisons – took for everrr. Got it all done in Fort William but virtually everything had to be done in different places. Morrison’s petrol stations have been brilliant

Woke up really late again – must be the mountain air. Back 14 miles up the single track road, then had a near disaster. Guy turned into what he thought was a car park, but it was a very rocky,

First stop, further up Loch Lomond for services. We were quite surprised to find a proper motorhome servicing area but unfortunately, it had a tap that no hose fitting on earth would connect to. Ever resourceful, Mr Bramley came up

Well, I have to admit I wasn’t keen on coming this far north today, but what a pleasant surprise! Seemed like the minute we crossed the border, the skies turned blue, the sun came out and summer had returned with