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 »
Category: Walking
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Caerlaverock
We remained parked up in Glencaple for the next day and night. The next day was bright and sunny to start with, and although it clouded over later and there… Read more »
Last days in Wales
By this time we knew we would have to be heading back to the south west as we had a music festival to attend in just over a week’s time…. Read more »
A new way up
After Anglesey we headed back into Snowdonia for a third and final time on this trip. The weather was glorious and a mountain walk was called for. Now, we have… Read more »
Blogging Anxiety and our final days in Anglesey
You may have noticed that I haven’t blogged for a week, this has caused me a little anxiety, but not quite enough to motivate me to blog. The reason for a lack of… Read more »
Puffin Watching
Anglesey has it’s own adjacent island in the north west corner, a smaller fractal image of the relationship between Wales and Anglesey; this island is Holy Island and in it’s north west… Read more »
Carneddau climb
We had decided to walk the Carneddau horseshoe from the Ogwen valley. The Carneddau mountains can be found on the north side of the A5 as you leave Capel Curig heading north and every previous time we… Read more »
Last day on the Lleyn
Our last stop on the Lleyn peninsula was at Nant Gwrtheyrn on the north coast. This heritage centre is home to the National Welsh Language Centre as well as having some… Read more »
A Parcel of Pinnipeds
Pinniped means ‘winged feet’ and is the name applied to animals with flippers, such as walruses, sea lions and seals. Our next stop gave us multiple opportunities to watch common seals… Read more »
Strong Currents
Next it was back to the original plan, and so we headed back down to the northernmost ‘toe’ of the peninsula. Mynydd Mawr (literally Big Mountain) overlooks Bardsey Island and… Read more »
If you cant stand the heat…get up a mountain
The weather was settling into heatwave territory, even Snowdonia expecting temperatures of 27 degrees, so we decided we needed to find a campsite where we could stretch out the awning… Read more »
Borth
Morrissey once sang about the ‘Seaside town they forgot to shut down’, and that’s what came to mind when we arrived in Borth, a town on the coast of Wales north… Read more »
An embarassment of kites
In my head, the Red Kite is a rare and infrequently seen bird, but here in mid wales that certainly is not the case. And in fact, reading the RSPB pages about… Read more »
When the sun shines
It’s still raining as I write this, but I thought I’d share the sunny side of the last seven days, as there was quite a bit of sunshine and it… Read more »