Today I read through my blogs for the first time. Strange reading back, somethings seem so irrelevant now. The bad weather I seem to mention alot in my blogs but in all honesty, it wasn’t overly bad, it could have been worse. The hard weather days that stick in mind was the drive from Wick …
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Interestingly on our trip we met some lovely people and some very informative locals. At the time things were very hectic and phone signal poor so was hard to follow up on the information passed to us. We were constantly on the move and our minds focused on our challenge. There was, however, one encounter …
Read more “The Dark History of Gruinard Island”
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After an extremely early night we woke up fresh, well I say fresh, maybe a little more alert would be a better phrase. Up and showered, it was hard to leave the comfort of the hotel room but the excitement of it being the final day and getting to see family, friends and more importantly …
Read more “Day 16 Berwick upon Tweed to Kirkcaldy”
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So the rain was relentless and on all night. We got up and asked the kids how they slept. Poor Becca’s sleeping bag was soaked aswell as some of her clothes. The tent had a leak. One corner had a puddle. This happened before and it turned out to be juice that had been spilt …
Read more “Day 15 Annan to Berwick upon Tweed”
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It did rain last night again but it has gone off by morning time. The usual shammy dry tent and we were off on the road towards Annan. Our first stop would be a little shop in Wigtown, where we would get some breakfast. I had a bacon roll and the others had a breakfast …
Read more “Day 14 Sorbie to Annan”
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Well the sleep on the farm field was cold and we were awoken at 6:30am with locals who had come to let their horses out the stables so it was all very noisy. The toilet wasn’t the best. £10 per person, if you were a biker I suppose it would be good but for us, …
Read more “Day 13 Maidens to Sorbie”
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As I’m lying here in our tent listening to the wind pick up, I’m beaming from ear to ear. I have had a fantastic birthday. I woke this morning in our cabin at The Gather in Tarbert and my neck was killing me. Issue is, our airbeds have built in pillows so when we have …
Read more “Day 12 Tarbert to Maidens”
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After a good rest it was time to get back on the up. Another night of heavy rain and another wet tent. You all know the drill by now :-). Tent away, the sun was out and the views around were incredible. Mountains and rivers all around us. This site really does give you some …
Read more “Day 11 Glencoe to Tarbert”
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We tried to book on the early morning ferry from Armadale but unfortunately it was booked out so we had to opt for the 11:45am one. The positive would be we would get a good rest. However that was not to be. A group of young cyclist arrived later in the evening and were quite …
Read more “Day 10 Skye to Glencoe”
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As expected today was going to be horrid. We did hope that the weather man might have got it wrong but nope. We woke up to heavy rain but it did ease when we started taking the tent down so that was a bonus. We set off heading further south around the loop towards Applecross. …
Read more “Day 9 Shieldaig to Skye”
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