Bettyhill and the Highland Clearances
23/11/2024 After visiting Dounreay we drove westwards along the A836. The views were becoming more desolate, this is the edge of the Flow Country. We really want to drive inland… Read more »
Category: Cycling
Orkney Part 4 – Sanday
15/11/2024 Is it wrong to book a destination based on Pizza? It’s not that pizza was the reason we wanted to go to Sanday. But once we’d decided we were… Read more »
Orkney Part 2 – Westray
11/11/2024 While we were at Pool Farmhouse we planned out our visits to other islands. We were hoping to get to Westray, Sanday and Hoy on this trip, with possible… Read more »
Orkney Part 1 – South Ronaldsay and East Mainland
06/11/2024 We set off for Orkney on the 2nd November from Gill’s Bay. It was a lovely day for our crossing, a hopeful sign of the weather to come. We… Read more »
Making Plans and Heading North
30/10/2024 We had been watching the weather forecast for a little while. Being British we are obsessed with the weather anyway, but this was a level above the usual, with… Read more »
Bike Trails and Seaboard Villages
28/10/2024 Following our walk up Ben Wyvis we drove back east towards the coast, through popular Fortrose and Rosemarkie where Chanonry Point offers good opportunities for dolphin spotting. We didn’t… Read more »
Randolph’s Leap
24/10/24 River Findhorn Somewhere I had read that the Findhorn River was one of the most underrated and beautiful rivers in Scotland. I don’t know how true that is. Certainly… Read more »
Shingle banks of the Spey
17/10/24 Yet again it was time for work. These couple of days a week come so quickly. I cant believe that I actually managed to do a ‘normal’ working week…. Read more »
Biking the Moray Monster Trails
14/10/2024 After a lot of walking it was time to indulge Paul with some Mountain Biking. Winding Walks is a Scottish Forestry location which hosts the ‘Moray Monster’ trails and… Read more »
The Angus Glens
03/10/24 What we had seen of Angus so far had been fields of stubble and straw bales. Earthy potato fields were in the last stages of harvest and fruit farms… Read more »
Stones and Stuff in Forfar
01/10/2024 One of the things I have decided about working from the van is that I want to be on hook up and stationary on the days I’m working. The… Read more »
Wild Things of Tentsmuir
26/09/24 After a morning finishing off some work tasks at Kingsbarns, it was time to move onto our next stop. We left Kingsbarns covered in salt spray from a very… Read more »
Return to Loch Leven
19/09/24 We set off inland from Aberdour. Unknowingly we were about to visit somewhere we had been before. Loch Leven has a nice easy bike route all the way round…. Read more »
A tale of two Bike Parks
12/09/24 While in the Scottish Borders it would be rude not to visit some of the excellent mountain biking facilities that are on offer. The 7Stanes are a collection of… Read more »
A Sandstone Maze in the Mullerthal
12/10/2023 Our final destination before heading back to the UK was Luxembourg. We followed in the footsteps of a number of other instagramming motorhomers who seemed to pass through Luxembourg… Read more »
A Birthday at Titisee
07/10/2023 We left Switzerland in rather a grumpy mood, knowing we were on our way home. We were leaving ourselves plenty of time to make the return to the UK… Read more »
Under the Eiger
03/10/2023 Lauterbrunnen was a location that prompted mixed feelings in us. It had been built up by people we know, people we follow and random internet strangers. A place unrivalled,… Read more »
Between Two Lakes
01/10/2023 Our campsite in Interlaken was a short bike ride or bus journey away from Interlaken. We were happy with the separation from the busy town. We visited a couple… Read more »
Marmots in the Saas Valley
24/09/2023 South of the Rhone Valley, starting near the town of Visp, is a long valley that forks in two as it heads towards Italy. In one branch of this… Read more »
Grimentz: Our Last Stop in the Val d’Anniviers
19/09/2023 Our last stop in the Val d’Anniviers was the skiing village of Grimentz. It looks like more than a village with it’s many chalets and apartments, but with only… Read more »