Hello again. This will be my last blog post from my trip to Scotland. I really hope that you have enjoyed reading it and that it has got your juices flowing for camper vans, camper van cooking and living the life. And good luck with the competition! We left Scotland [...]
Mountains mean myrtles
August 22, 2011
The road from Skye to the border is a long one, but we did it – almost – in just one day. It’s a great drive that begins with the steep climb over the bridge to Skye. It really is one of the humpiest bridges I’ve ever driven over, even [...]
DAY 13: The long road home
August 17, 2011
After just under a week in Lewis we made the family decision to head home. We had accomplished what we’d come here for. Of course it wasn’t nearly enough time but we had things to do and a dog to pick up from Kennels. Unfortunately reality shouts loudest sometimes. So [...]
Campervan living: What it’s all about.
August 12, 2011
This trip has brought us a few disappointments. First Maggie breaking her arm, then discovering that the ‘last chippie before Canada’ is a fabulous seafood restaurant (or we simply couldn’t find it). Oh well. It’s all part of the journey. You simply don’t know what you’re going to find. Of [...]
DAY 11: The chipper that isn’t
August 11, 2011
I can’t remember where I got the information from that there was a great fish and chip shop in Port of Ness. The research told me that it had fresh fish and chips made from fresh local fish and chips made from freshly dug local spuds. For a writer looking [...]
DAY 10:Wash Day, the long way round
Three days in the wild without a shower is nothing to some, but to my lot counts as nothing short of an abomination. We’re all used to camping but there’s a limit. The tribe decided it was wash day. Of course, since we were wild camping we had nowhere to [...]
DAY 9: French Onion Soup for a French Onion Soup kind of a day
Today the weather was overcast and drizzly. It was a perfect day for a walk over the cliffs and a bowl of something delicious. Fortunately we had both at our disposal, the latter in the form of a recipe to photograph. From where we were camped we could see a [...]
DAY 8: One girl down, but never out.
It turned out to be a green stick fracture of Maggie’s wrist. So she got plastered up by the very nice (and speedy) staff at Stornoway A&E. As she’s only 8 the cast doesn’t have to stay on for long – just 2 weeks – but it was enough to [...]
DAY 8: So near yet so far
August 5, 2011
As we’re driving a camper on our summer adventure we thought it prudent to wait until the very last minute to book our ferry to Lewis. All campervan adventures run behind time so you can end up making countless phone calls to ferry companies to cancel bookings, make new ones [...]
DAY 7:Feet first
August 4, 2011
I qualified as a PADI Open Water Diver in about 1996 in Thailand so it was always going to be an interesting experience diving in Scottish waters. I had booked in to do a dry suit course in Oban with Puffin Divers before we jumped on the ferry to the [...]