On Tuesday morning we woke up late from our last night spent in a campsite for this year. Campsite mornings in the UK have us mystified; even when there are a large number of campervans and caravans on site, there are very few people moving about or in the shower blocks. Even when we leave […]
On Saturday we decided to give Eileen a day off and we caught the bus into Stirling. We walked up the steep streets to the castle which sits on the top of a hill of volcanic rock. Four and a half hours were spent wandering around the various rooms, exhibits, and along the rampart walls.
Crikey, it’s freezing !!! Just before 8am, I dashed to the shower block across crispy white grass. I checked the thermometer that I had hung on Eileen’s wing mirror: -7°c (20f)……that’s well below freezing! Overnight the puddles all around the campsite had become skating rinks for pixies. Happily, the shower block was warm and the
On Saturday we watched the mizzly weather outside and faffed around inside all morning. Then, when the clouds began to lift a little in the west, we decided to catch the train from Fort William to Mallaig which is supposed to be one of the most scenic railway journeys in the world. Despite arriving half
We awoke to another dry day; I hope you can imagine how joyful that makes us. Two days in a row and not a drop of rain, yippee! We spent the day driving right round the Totternish Peninsula, the most northern part of Skye. We took the road up the west coast through Uig, Balgown,
We said goodbye to Eileen’s latest beautiful view and pulled out of the Inverewe campsite at 10:30am, while the rain came down again. We were so glad that we had managed to see such a beautiful place with the sun on it yesterday. We stopped off at the tiny supermarket in Gairloch; so tiny that even though
Monday morning started without rain……no not really…..it was still pouring. Officially fed up with the persistent rain, we sadly decided to give up on the West Coast and Skye, so we packed up and left our beautiful spot on Loch Linhhe. We drove north, just past Fort William to see Neptune’s Staircase at Banavie. It