The Animals of Polar Park
30/08/2025 I had promised Paul a day off after our big hike. A chance to rest the legs. I’m not sure our next stop really fitted the bill. But it… Read more »
Category: Wildlife
Heading into Nordland
23/08/2025 The next few days were forecast to continue to be drizzly, but we had a destination in mind for Sunday when the weather was due to improve, so we… Read more »
Spotting Musk Ox at Snøhetta Viewpoint
19/08/2025 Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately – we do have to pay the bills) I am still having to work as we travel. I took a week off initially to allow… Read more »
Ancient Bones and Ruins
29/11/2024 Friday was a drab damp and windy day. It was also the day we realised we only had a week left to get back home for our family Christmas… Read more »
Exploring Beaches from Kinlochbervie
28/11/25 After Durness, we drove around more of the NC500 road. heading south and away from the north coast. On our right was the wild and desolate landscape of the… Read more »
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 »
Orkney Part 5 – Last Days on the Mainland
21/11/2024 It always feels a bit awkward talking about the ‘Mainland’. Are we talking about Orkney Mainland or UK Mainland? This last blog entry for Orkney talks about our final… Read more »
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 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 »
A Day on Ben Wyvis
26/10/2024 Our reason for heading inland was to climb a mountain. Ben Wyvis is a munro. We are slowly ticking off these mountains over 3000 feet and as it was… Read more »
Historic Sites and Leaping Salmon
25/10/2024 This was to be one of those busy days. They happen sometimes. Unexpectedly we find ourselves able to stuff a lot of activity into a single day. This morning… 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 »
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 »
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 »
Elie Chain Walk and More
21/09/24 I had pencilled Elie into the map on the basis of it’s Chain Walk. I was doing a little research to find out whether it was worth us bringing… 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 »
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 »
A Journey to the Aletsch Arena
23/09/2023 We were still in Brig at Camping Geshina, it was another grey day but we were really keen to get up into the Aletsch Arena and so crossed our… Read more »
Watching the Queens in the Val d’Anniviers
15/09/2023 The Val d’Anniviers first came to our attention when we were full timing in our motorhome. Esther and Dan in their blog talked about the way the local community… Read more »
The Highest Gravity Dam in the World
13/09/2023 Our drive to our next stop was a pretty arduous one. We were heading into the Val d’Herens. It’s a pretty motorhome unfriendly valley with a website that says… Read more »