Our (Tony's) new project, changing our Laika motor home for a heavy goods vehicle converted into an expedition truck, was gathering momentum. The 2003…
Our expedition truck project
We have decided to spend more time travelling so are downsizing our home and building an expedition truck to enable us to travel further…
Gamrie Bay
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…
Dunnet Bay
We continued our journey east following the meandering coast road around the shores of Loch Eribol before the terrain softened as we took the…
Lotte Glob, The Sculpture Croft
A fellow traveller recommended that we stop at the croft of a sculptor, Lotte Glob, who in 1999 had purchased 14 acres of.land…
Ullapool to Durness
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
The Outer Hebrides was a chain of about two hundred islands lying in the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Scotland. They stretched…
Over The Sea To Skye
The ferry from Malaig to Skye took forty minutes. After disembarking we drove north to Portree where the town elders were canny enough to…