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Crossing the Border and an Afternoon in York, England
Getting out of Scotland meant one final run through Glasgow Queen Street, changing between the low level and high level stations, this time with four large suitcases and two children. ... -
A Day With No Plan in Edinburgh - Day 14
By day fourteen of a four week trip we had earned a day with no agenda. So we gave ourselves one. No summits, no castles, no drone, no schedule. Just ... -
Commonwealth Games Glasgow: The Reason for the Trip - Day 13
Every long trip has one thing it is actually built around, even if the rest of the itinerary politely pretends otherwise. Four weeks across England, Ireland and Scotland, twelve days ... -
Glen Coe in the Rain and the Best Shot I Have Taken - Day 12
A few days earlier, coming down Loch Ness and then west through Glen Moriston on the way to Skye, I had told the family not to blink. Every minute of ... -
The Jacobite Steam Train to Mallaig - Day 11
Some things on a big trip are nice to have. This one was not. From the moment we started sketching out four weeks in England, Ireland and Scotland, roughly twelve ... -
Glen Nevis Campsite and a Quiet Day in Scotland - Day 10
Day ten was a quiet one by design. We left Skye behind and pointed the van south for Fort William, and the whole day was really about getting to the ... -
The Fairy Pools: Cold Water, Midges & Why to Get In - Day 9
The Fairy Pools were always going to deliver. What defined the day was everything the brochures leave out: mud, midges and cold water. The pools sit in Coire na Creiche ... -
Dunvegan Castle, Seal Pups & Neist Point - Day 8
Skye does not really do rest days. The morning after the Old Man of Storr we pointed the van west out of Portree towards Dunvegan and the Duirinish peninsula, the ... -
Old Man of Storr, Kilt Rock & Fairy Glen - Day 7
Day seven of the motorhome loop was the one I had circled since we started planning, and the Trotternish peninsula gave us everything we asked of it. We took local ... -
The A87 to Skye and Settling into Portree - Day 6
Scottish Highlands to Skye day. On paper it is a three hour drive from Inverness. It took us considerably longer, because we could not stop stopping. The A82 down the ... -
Highland Coos, Loch Ness & Urquhart Castle - Day 5
Loch Ness day, and it started better than any of us expected. We had booked a Highland cow experience at Drumbuie Farm, just above Drumnadrochit. The farm has the Quila ... -
Culloden Battlefield, Clava Cairns and an Unlikely Encounter - Day 4
Culloden was the one I most wanted. I missed it on my last trip to Scotland and have thought about it since. The plan was Clava Cairns at nine, then ... -
Lallybroch, Falkland & Drummond Surprise - Day 3
We were up early on purpose. Midhope Castle, better known to a certain kind of household as Lallybroch, is easy to reach and therefore easy to overrun, so we got ... -
Wallace Monument, Bannockburn & Doune Castle - Day 2
Stirling and surrounds gave us one memorable day. Fair warning, there is Outlander content within. We started at the National Wallace Monument, the Victorian Gothic tower finished in 1869 on ... -
Meet Hamish: Scotland Motorhome Road Trip Begins - Day 1
We picked up the motorhome in Glasgow and pointed it north. He is a Roller Team Zefiro, his name is Hamish, and we hired him through Camplify from Jodie, who ...
