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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the absolute must do's on a trip to Scotland is to take in an Old Firm game between Celtic and Rangers in Glasgow. Alas we were there at ...

Most of our Scottish castle visits involved navigating through crowds, guided tours, and the ever-present hum of camera shutters. But Carnasserie Castle offered something entirely different, a welcome silence. No ...

Crinan, a tiny harbour village on Scotland’s southwest coast, is a place where time slows down. Nestled in Argyll and Bute, this picturesque spot is surrounded by breathtaking views of ...

Coming towards the end of our Scottish stay (before I had to head to work in England for a few weeks), Louise and I spent a grand day exploring Edinburgh, ...