This morning dawned just as I have been waiting for Scotland in the autumn to be. Beautiful colours but cold, wet, windy and on the wild side. Much though the amazing sunshine and heat has been lovely for all the outdoors walking type stuff we’ve done I do want to experience Scotland at it’s worst …
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Plug us in
Woke up this morning and watched the mists clearing over Loch Carron. Very beautiful there 🙂 The plan was to head towards Inverness and stop at the first campsite we found with hook up, showers, internet signal and laundrette. We found one at Ardleve which was run on a curious basis where you find a …
Twisty turny
An earlier start than preferable when Scarlett woke with daybreak having had a nightmare. She came down for a cuddle and got into my sleeping bag with me which was lovely and snuggly but meant less sleep after that. Funnily enough I had bad dreams and so did Davies last night… We reached Lochcarron and …
Speed Blog
Whoosh! Woke this morning at Loch Maree which by virtue of being to the east of us meant we had sunrise over it which was beautiful. I know the indian summer is gorgeous and all, meaning DJs everywhere are playing Boys of Summer, Summer Lovin’ and Walking on Sunshine constantly but it does make for …
All over it like a rash
which is one of our favourite sayings at the moment. Mike, our letting agent says it to me every single month when I make my phonecall to him to check on rent collection progress ‘Don’t worry Nicola, we’re on it, we’re all over it like a rash’. Whilst the context is always totally hassle-filled it …
Corrieshalloch Gorge and needing the toilet
We woke up this morning to an ever increasingly gorgeous view as the early morning mists cleared. We had breakfast and hung on in the van for Popmaster before driving back a couple of laybys to the carpark for Corrieshalloch Gorge. It’s a National Trust place and doesn’t have an admission charge as such but …
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Smokin’
Popmaster got drowned out by yelling this morning 🙁 The pressure of over a week in the van with no time out at all started to show with Davies and Scarlett yesterday and they were squabbly. They do it so infrequently my tolerance for it is virtually zero and of course they are totally trapped …
Tescos, Toilets, something else beginning with T that I haven’t thought of yet…
We had Popmaster this morning at Knockan Crags and then headed to Ullapool. We needed drinking water, I wanted to wash my hair (cold water only at the loos at Knockan) and we had a shopping list of food supplies. This is our last week of the month so we’re on limited funds with the …
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my new favourite view
Every time we stop I seem to decide this is my new favourite view 🙂 This morning we woke, breakfasted and headed off. We debated stopping for milk at the supermarket but the little Spar in the village was closed and we decided not to drive round to the Costcutter, we also decided not to …
Posting from the past
No signal last night so Saturday written in word doc This morning we walked into Lochinver after breakfast for a look round. It’s a big ish town with a couple of shops, petrol station and various cafes. It is a large harbour / fishing port with loads of wildlife around the coastline. We went first …
Keep the motor running
Lots of driving today. We started at Keodale when after a night of very heavy rain we were already sure the cave tours would not be running. Scarlett and I had a long discussion about brushing her hair which was starting to look very tangled even to my rather tolerant eyes, which ended with it …
Yesterday once more
From a word doc typed in desperation last night, because those words have to go somewhere 😉 So it might be hard blogging in two places at once but being unable to blog in either is really torture! No internet signal here tonight (although phone is fine) so having to compose this for blogging later. …
Hard being in two places at once
particularly with limited power, and I really want to update the WW one daily as much as possible while we’re on this leg of the journey. So I’ll post here my fervant hope that we don’t get blown away by the gale howling around the van tonight, my joy at Davies thanking me earlier for …
The Far North
We had dinner tonight in the carpark of Dunnet Head viewpoint, the most Northern point of UK mainland – we’ve reached the top! 🙂 This morning we left our overnight stop with a view to stopping in Helmsdale for maybe a couple of nights as our map looked like it may have a few interesting …
Falls of Shin, Ferrycroft
About to lose battery for this evening and have already blogged over on WW but a quick post to say We saw the salmon! We saw the salmon! We also had a great time at the Falls of Shin, the Ferrycroft visitor centre and driving around the gorgeous landscape in the sunshine. We’re parked up …
Rosemarkie – story so far
Monday morning the road did indeed get busier not long after 5am and it woke Ady up. He offered me a cup of tea, I looked at the clock, told him to sod off and went back to sleep. I think he offered me a cup of tea every hour afterwards until I accepted at …
Lochside
We left the hosts by about 10am this morning, pushed forward by me, I hate that last bit when we are about to leave and always just want to be off and away and not prolong it really. We were given a lovely card thanking us for everything and a card and present for Davies’ …
Last Day
I enjoyed a lie in this morning and Ady came and presented me with the WWOOF book when he woke me up. The WWOOF book is something we have encountered at around half of our hosts and is simply a guest book. Sometimes we have struggled not to fill the whole book with gushing, at …
Anniversary Painting
Davies woke me this morning and had been up really late last night creating anniversary card and gifts which included a little pink ribbon tied into a bracelet for me with ‘Nic Loves Ady, Ady loves Nic’ written around it and a voucher for a kiss (Davies stopped kissing us about 18 months ago, he …
12 years ago
09/09/99 and they said it would never last….. 😉