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Dublin, Ireland ‐ Feb 22, 2025

+3

Ireland is very GREEN

Farewell Scotland, hello Ireland

To our relief, the parcel was actually picked up as planned yesterday (missed the blog) so fingers crossed our precious things make it to Spence in a week or so. An early start and a busy day ahead, m...
Glasgow, United Kingdom ‐ Feb 20, 2025

+31

Glasgow in a hurry

Today was a chance to explore central Glasgow via bus, but not before getting the box ready for sending home. Unfortunately, our accommodation was managed by number 7 in our street, whilst the address...
Bowmore ‐ Feb 17, 2025

+46

Islay

Back to the mainland

Morning came with fingers crossed for the forecast being incorrect about the wind strength and the possibility of ferry cancellations...and a check of the Calmac ferries website showing that 28 of 30...

Islay Whisky Day 2

I'm a bit behind and so this one being typed at Glasgow airport...argh, sorry to our regular readers for the delay. Morning broke to another grey sky but the forecast for warmer air still lingered (up...

Islay Whisky day 1

So, some stuff is closed. Ardbeg had extensive roof damage in the Storm Eowyn and is closed for 6 months. Laphroaig is not running tours until after we've left Islay. Boo. Sitting at breakfast, workin...

Onto the whisky Isle we go

We bid farewell to the lands of Scottish historical battlegrounds and drove towards the coast at Kennacraig. Happily too, a return, one of our last, to the big scenery that we will remember so fondly...
Stirling ‐ Feb 15, 2025

+36

They may take our lives but they will never take away...IYKYK

A very good breakfast to get us into the 15000 steps or so we took today = excellent. Given the close proximity of our hotel to the main attractions in Stirling, we started out on foot to walk up the...
Gills Bay

Travelling to Stirling: William Wallace country

A very early start for us this morning with the ferry due for departure from St Margaret's Hope at 7:15am. With a 30 minute drive from our accommodation in the dark on potentially icy and certainly wi...
St Margarets Hope Post Office
Kirkwall ‐ Feb 10, 2025

+10

Orkney 5000 yo Standing Stones

+13

Orkney Neolithic Burial Cairns

+19

+30

St Magnus Cathedral

Another ripping day on Orkney

Another great breeze free day greeted us. Bronnie decided to embrace the Orkney life and get started on her beanie creation with her lovely Orkney wool whilst I headed out to Deerness to go to another...

Neolithic Orkney

Lovely weather Orkney style, read no wind, no rain, met us this morning so we decided to take in the Neolithic offerings of the main island using the convenient map from our accommodation. So, we pack...

Orkney done 2 ways!

A nice slow morning and given we have the week here, no rush to sprint around! But of course, I couldn't help myself so grabbed a brochure listing the main sites of interest in the west part of the ma...
St Margarets Hope Post Office

A ferry ride and now, Orkney

Up bright and early and a careful drive along the potentially icy and slippery roads up to Gills Bay ferry terminal was the order of the day. A delightful pre-sunrise scene awaited us and everything w...
Latheron ‐ Feb 7, 2025

+40

John O’Groats

+64

Caithness

John O Groats, Dunkansby Lighthouse and the Duncansby Stacks

Our last day in "the North" before hopping across to Orkney tomorrow, so we couldn't not go to the iconic John O'Groats. First stop was Duncansby Lighthouse and the nearby sea stacks. We were sooooo f...

Fairy Garden (Latheronwheel), Cairn O Camster and a Rugby match

As we looked out to the North Sea from our accommodation, the juxtapostion of the old and the new is quite striking. In the foreground we had the 14th century castle ruins, then behind that we can cou...

Scenic north north Scotland

A farewell to the geologists paradise and our slightly unusual vibe accommodation and we headed off towards our next port of call near John O'Groats. Again the morning scenery was varied and interesti...
Durness ‐ Jan 5, 2025

+25

Durness Geopark, Smoo Caveand Scourie

A day for the geologists

Some internet exploring revealed the extent of the significance of the geopark in this area, so safari suit, knaki and new wool jumpered attire, nerd up we did. A 45 minute drive south to Scourie took...

Moving day: South Erradale to Durness

Into "the North" we went today. With a forecast travel time of about 3.5hours, we did our research about things to do en route to Durness and realised that indeed it is true that this really is a spar...
South Erradale ‐ Jan 3, 2025

+8

Gairloch Estate, Flowering Waterfall

+30

South Erradale, Red Point Beach

A quiet hamlet in NW Scotland

Today was a delightful quiet rambling sort of day with no rush to get to a new location, no "must sees", no finding of new accommodation. A chance to finish doing the washing, have a relax and reset....
Portree ‐ Jan 1, 2025

+45

Exploring the north east of Skye

+24

Portree-Isle of Skye

+9

Road to Skye

A last blast on Skye then onto "the North"

Another great breakfast with our host Jacqui and a very interesting conversation about spirits residing at her house. Both nights, I've woken up to see a shape/presence in the upper corner of the room...

North Skye...a treat for the eyes

A quiet start to the day with a short walk into Portree harbour to get some supplies for picnic lunch in order before meeting up with Rachael at 1pm. As the morning grey clouds began to clear, we vent...

Off to Skye we go

Farewell to our ripping views in Fort William and the 3 highland cows. A quick look back through the town and we headed off towards The Isle of Skye. We were again constantly surprised by how "big" th...
Fort William ‐ Jan 29, 2025

+31

Steall Falls, Glen Nevis

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Glen Finnan viaduct, Harry Potter, Lochs to Malaig

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Ben Nevis and Neptunes Staircase.

Steall Falls: Mint!

Not the greatest sleep according to Garmin (sleep score of 46) but a new day dawned, with a less favourable forecast with a bit of rain around, but Bronnie found a recommended short walk nearby Ben Ne...

The magic of Harry Potter: Glen Finnan

An amazing view of Ben Nevis from our window woke us from a comfy sleep at Ben Nevis Manor. Not as old as the name suggested but a really great place to have chosen to stay at. I decided to head for a...

Inverness to Fort William via "the Loch"!!!!

Another haggisy start to the day and some car snacks collected at breakfast, we kicked off with a brief explore of Inverness. New MacDonald scarves for Bronnie/gifting and a stroll to the river Ness a...
Inverness ‐ Jan 27, 2025

+42

Loch Ness, Urquhart Castle and general Loch scenes

+28

Exploring the Highlands around Inverness

Great comfy hotel and traditional Scottish breakfast, including Haggis and Black Pudding for Tim, plus some sneaky lunch smuggled out and we were set for a good day. Weather a cool 4C most of the day,...

Travel day and another new vehicle

A good sleep after amazing music immersion over the weekend before we headed north again to resume our original Scottish highlands adventures. A much easier drive than the way down both due to leaving...
Manchester ‐ Jan 24, 2025

+7

Manchester RNCM Bands

Over too soon

To all readers, happy Australia Day or whatever name you go by for 26th January. For us, day 3 in Manchester saw more of the most amazing brass playing on earth. Another 3 bands of thrilling music wer...

Immersion weekend continued

Well, what can I say, I think I'll remember this weekend... Today we trunded along Oxford St to the RNCM, first to listen to Athena Band. An all female brass band that had been invited to attend and p...

Once in a century storm and amazing music

Well, the warnings weren't wrong. Wind howling from 5am outside, even though we were down in the Orange alert zone with just a mild 80-90mph winds as opposed to the all time records broken in Ireland...
Peterculter ‐ Jan 22, 2025

+76

Stonehaven & Dunnottar Castle

An unexpected adventure

We awoke to a lovely sunrise over the river opposite our accommodation this morning and had a terrific brekky, including Stornaway black pudding and square sausage (Lorne)! Our host was full of great...
Aberdeen

Travel Day

After a very late night to bed (12:45am) we were up bright and early to get ready for a huge travel day. Not too difficult as the usual pre-travel day "alertness" was in action. Bag mass checks reveal...
Rovaniemi, Finland ‐ Jan 22, 2025

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