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 »
Category: Scotland
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 »
The Cock of Arran
31/08/17 Lochranza is a village on the northern coast of Arran, set alongside a small sea loch. I don’t know when a bay or inlet becomes a loch, but the name… Read more »
Never Ending Antiquities
30/08/17 We had parked at King’s Cave deliberately … to visit King’s Cave of course. So the next morning we took a stroll down to the coast to see one… Read more »
Getting Otter
29/08/17 There was much excitement the next morning. Paul popped out for his morning cigarette and saw some movement in the water…it was an otter. Not the first otter sighting… Read more »
En route to Arran
28/08/17 True to the weather forecast the next morning was wet and miserable. We drove up to Ardrossan and sat in the queue for the midday ferry. The tarmac was… Read more »
Maritime Irvine
27/08/17 We took the plunge and booked our ferry to Arran for Monday. The weather for Monday was going to be pretty dire (again) so we thought we might as… Read more »
Long Slog through Fog and Bog
25/08/17 – 26/08/17 The next day we thought we would go for a bike ride, there is a scenic trail of just under 40 miles around the Galloway forest which… Read more »
Into the Galloway Forest
24/08/17 Next up we wanted to head for the Forest of Galloway for some walking and mountain biking. Heading back up to Newton Stewart we took a tip from the… Read more »
Mackerel
23/08/17 We decided to move to New England Bay the following day. There is a large picnic area here right next to the beach and we had seen people wild… Read more »
Rhinns and Mulls
21/08/17 – 22/08/17 From the Isle of Whithorn we were heading to the Rhinns of Galloway, the word Rhinns (or Rhins) is derived from the Gaelic for point or headland,… Read more »
In the footsteps of pilgrims … almost
19/08/17 – 20/08/17 Because of my usual tardiness in posting the blog I have decided to label each post with the date(s) it pertains to. That way you, the reader,… Read more »
7 Stanes
The next day we moved on. It seemed that most people at Glencaple were breaking their journey to go further north, but we were heading west deeper into Dumfries and… Read more »