As you know, when we travelled to Gigha it was a bit windy and wet and we wondered whether we would get anything much out of our last day. Most importantly we still had the rest of a birthday to celebrate so, in the full spirit of where we were I elected to create a…

I am writing this one waiting for the ferry from Portavedie to Tarbet and it’s raining. The worst day we’ve had for the weather all trip. I read the timetable wrong and we are either 45 mins early for one sailing or have just missed one by 15 minutes depending which way you look at…

In my opinion, as beautiful as everything has been this far we have saved the best (as in the Outer Hebrides) until last. We still have a few days left but sadly more time behind us than in front. So in my last blog I warned of melancholy but I no longer think that is…

I’ll apologise in advance this may be more waffle than photos on this occasion, I will also apologise as I fear that, further editions of this blog may be prone to middle aged melancholy. I was never really into being a Cub or a Scout, for some unknown reason I did have a spell in…

Here we are sitting at the North end of Harris and we are just over halfway through our four week tour. Either heading into a state of zen like being or a complacency that this time in two weeks we will be back to it and all of this will seem like a life time…

Having left Orkney (note still no reference to the Orkney’s) a day late we finally made it back to the mainland. Firstly it was raining, secondly we had to rejoin part of the NC500 and thirdly we had already curtailed some plans as we had a dinner date booked in Ullapool for 7.00. This was…

The clue for this one is in the title. It started as a planned one night away, flying from Kirkwall and spending a night at the Bird Observatory. There will be more about the ornithology side of things shortly but for now let me remain focused and talk about the journey. Kirkwall airport is an…