Category: Scotland 2016

The Bonnie Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond (27th July 2016)

This morning was lovely, quiet, and slow. The Lake to the side of us was silently lapping on the shore and it took us an age to get going. It was 10 before we looked at a clock. Then for some reason we needed a fry up which was graciously received. That however didn’t help …

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A Scotsman’s Home is his… (26th July 2016)

Up this morning with the crows, actually it wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be.  By 9 we were off and heading for.. We drove through on the M8 as we were heading for Dumbarton to restock. Toby was so exhausted he needed to put his feet up  The journey took is across …

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There’s Gold in them there Hills (25th July 2016)

Took us ages to get going this morning, yesterday really took it out of us. We had a small brekkie and headed off, up through Dumfries And up through into a small town called Wanlockhead.. We purchased a licence from there and drove south for a short while and stopped, hopped out and panned for …

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Some sheep, a lake, a boat, a lake, a waterfall, a border and a harbour (24th July 2016)

Bit of an abrupt awakening at 06:30 this morning by someone shouting “Ho” repeatedly and only the sound of the sheep baaing meant it wasn’t Santa Claus.  Up and ready by 10 we set off west towards Lake Windermere we took the back roads which were a bit scary but the view was stunning all …

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Minty Cake Land (23rd July 2016)

Good afternoons,  We set off a bit late this morning which, to be honest, was always going to happen. We thought we’d old school the route and use one of them map thingummybobs. April is driving and doing a sterling job, there have been roads with letters and numbers and white dotted lines and other …

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