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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, ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
