
A Week in Glen Nevis
Fort William is not the most prepossessing town, and our memories of it are somewhat tainted by the fact we almost always visit in poor weather when the grey wet… Read more »
Fort William is not the most prepossessing town, and our memories of it are somewhat tainted by the fact we almost always visit in poor weather when the grey wet… Read more »
We have spent a lot of holidays in Scotland. We particularly love the west coast ‘where the mountains meet the sea’ and have spent many pre-motorhome holidays enjoying the mountains… Read more »
We have managed 6 weeks and 2 days in Scotland on this trip, covering only a small part of the country and even then managing only a small sample of what is available… Read more »
28/09/17-28/09/17 Over the last week we have started to feel a little unsettled as we realised our time in Scotland was coming to a close – what should we do… Read more »
27/09/17-28/09/17 I would never have thought about visiting Falkirk if it wasn’t for Facebook. I will admit I have a bit of a Facebook addiction, accessing it far more than… Read more »
26/09/17-27/09/17 We left Kilvrecht to head east along the string of lochs, all with hydro schemes for electricity generation, until we hit the A9 where we were able to start heading… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »