Monday 18 April Today’s weather forecast was overcast and showers so we spent the first couple of hours catching up on work and having a chilled breckie. We then donned our waterproofs and drove 3 miles to the village of…
Sunday 17 April Having looked at the weather forecast we knew the best of the today was the morning so planned a 6 mile walk from Ambleside, that would take us up on to Loughrigg Fall. We had some breakfast…
Saturday 16 April We packed up the Gherkin (Vectra) and left Edinburgh at 10am, heading down to the Lakes enjoying a mixture of sun and snow on the way! After stopping off at the Gretna Outlet Centre we then made…
This afternoon we headed westwards to Falkirk to check out the wheel as it was something we hadn’t seen since living up here in Scotland. It’s a pretty impressive piece of engineering that opened up in 2002 and lifts boats…
Lucky for us the couple of days I’d booked off work coincided with a spell of nice weather, so on Monday morning Glenn and I packed up the campervan and headed off over the Forth Road Bridge to Fife. We…
Feeling full now having enjoyed our sweet and savoury pancakes…I know they don’t look that exciting from the pics but they were delicious!! 🙂
Having not had the camper out since before Christmas, we decided to head down to Peebles and do a nice 7.5mile walk we’ve first done last summer. Before heading up into the hills we went to a lovely little deli/restaurant…
Our first walk in the Pentlands on 2016…and in the snow! We weren’t the only ones making the most of the weather – there were lots of hikers and even more parents and families armed with sledges and even snowboards…
Really tough walk, only 1 munro but walking in thigh high snow at some points really took it out of us. Cracking day though but it didn’t get above freezing and my juice even started to freeze! A real winter…
This year we enjoyed a lovely long 2 week break back on the IOM for Christmas and New Year. It was a nice chance to eat, drink, catch up with the family and enjoy the great outdoors! We flew back…