Category: Scotland

We visited the village of John O'Groats, the most northern inhabited part of the United Kingdom.  The harbour area was a dreary collection of…

We continued our journey east following the meandering coast road around the shores of Loch Eribol before the terrain softened as we took the…

  A fellow traveller recommended that we stop at the croft of a sculptor, Lotte Glob, who in 1999 had purchased 14 acres of.land…

The campsite at Durness was in a stunning situation overlooking Sango Bay.  At last it had stopped raining and lots of people were enjoying…

We returned from Stornoway on the ferry to Ullapool and then headed north along the coast road towards Durness. The road often narrowed to…

  The Outer Hebrides was a chain of about two hundred islands lying in the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Scotland.  They stretched…

We crossed back to the mainland using the Skye Bridge at Kyle of Lochalsh and headed north.  The drive was scenic as we drove…

The ferry from Malaig to Skye took forty minutes.  After disembarking we drove north to Portree where the town elders were canny enough to…

In the past we have spent a lot of time at Balloch on the shores of Loch Lomond.  We could cycle from the campsite…