More Drizzly Days
24/09/17-25/09/17 As mentioned in the previous post, we had run out of water. We’d staved off the inevitable by one day, using the showers at the mountain biking area, but we… Read more »
Category: Countries
The Shepherd’s Hill
23/09/17 The move eastwards to the Cairngorms gifted us with a day of sunshine, but it wasn’t going to last. We toyed with a long strenuous walk up Cairngorm and Ben Macdui… Read more »
Neptune’s Staircase
21/09/17 – 22/09/17 Fort William is a fairly unprepossessing town, more utilitarian than picturesque, particularly in poor weather when the views of Ben Nevis cannot be seen. However it is… Read more »
Dashing Across Ardnamurchan
20/09/17 We were sorry to be leaving Mull, but with several days of poor weather forecast and a looming deadline to get to Aaron’s graduation we just couldn’t hang around… Read more »
The Road to Carsaig
19/09/17 Unintentionally we made a poor decision today – we had to choose between another day lazing at Fidden Farm and maybe popping over on the ferry to Iona, or… Read more »
A Day of Rest
18/09/17 When we were parked under the shadow of Ben More we got talking to the occupants of one of the campervans and they recommended Fidden Farm campsite. They waxed… Read more »
More, Otters and Eagles
16/09/17-17/09/17 After a lovely day at Calgary Bay, the weather turned a little gloomy again, but when we had last seen the forecast it was just the one day of… Read more »
White Sands of Calgary
15/09/17 Calgary is a city in Canada, it’s airport is often used as a gateway to the Rockies. Calgary is also a small village on the North West corner of Mull with… Read more »
On the Move on Mull
14/09/17 On Mull the roads are in the highland style i.e. single track with passing places. The classification of the road does not tell you how wide it is, but… Read more »
A Moist Start on Mull
12/09/17-13/09/17 In Oban the following morning we did some supermarket shopping to stock up on a few essentials before going over to Mull. Our plans were going to take us… Read more »
A Bit of Nostalgia
11/09/17 Barnluasgan is near to the Crinan Canal which was built to allow boats to pass across the Kintyre peninsular without having to take the significantly longer journey around it’s… Read more »
On the Beaver Trail
10/09/17 The day on Gigha had been a brief respite from the rain. The following morning it was tipping down again and difficult to believe we’d been chilling on the… Read more »
Gigha Island
08/09/17-09/09/17 It was still raining when we left Machrihanish Campsite, but we knew that the following day would be good so we made our way up the west coast of… Read more »
Hair Today
10/09/17 We were in a campsite, stuck vegetating in Bertie due to rain. The biggest event of the day (and it’s a pretty big event as far as I’m concerned) was… Read more »
Mull of Kintyre
06/09/17 More rain had set in. Our plans had been to visit Campbeltown, maybe to take a walk to Davaar island and then walk up to the lighthouse on the Mull… Read more »
Carradale Coastal Walk
05/09/17 We woke up to fine weather and so continued with our plan to walk around the coast to Carradale. The intention was to follow part of the Kintyre way to… Read more »
Ferry Finally
04/09/17 We didn’t get the first ferry from Lochranza, we left it till 10ish to get in the queue. Although we were second in the queue we were waved on first… Read more »
(Not) Leaving Lochranza
03/09/17 When we woke up on the Sunday morning in Sannox we knew we had to make a decision – would we stay in Arran and hope for some better… Read more »
Bimble Around Brodick
02/09/17 After a day on the mountain we didn’t feel like doing anything too strenuous so we headed to Brodick. We parked up in the car park by the Mountain… Read more »
Goatfell
01/09/17 Goatfell is the highest mountain on Arran and we had been looking for a suitable day to climb it before we left. Although we had had plenty of decent… Read more »