For a refreshing start to the week we headed out into the Pentlands for a walk, starting at Flotterstone and tackling a few hills we hadn’t yet walked. It was a lovely, invigorating walk that took us up and along…

Pentlands Walk (Turnhouse and Carnethy Hills) 4 August

Hoey & Polly’s Italy Wedding!
We had a great time away with Glenn’s family celebrating Hoey’s wedding to Polly. We were based in the town of Stresa which is situated on the south-west coast of Lake Maggiore in north Italy. We were pretty chilled for…

Peebles Walk – 10 July 2014
Taking advantage of a nice warm day we got our shorts on and headed to the town of Peebles for a lovely walk. We parked in the town and walked up out of the town and on to the Cademuir…

Baking, Cooking and Eating!
The last couple of weeks have mainly been taken up with visiting local farm shops, baking and cooking new recipes and eating! It’s been fun…so I thought I’d upload a few photos of our concoctions to remind us in case…

UK mini-break 14-22 June
We’re just back from a week long mini tour of the UK….last Saturday we headed south with Glenn dropping me off in Carlisle while he carried on to Manchester for his brother’s stag do. I made my way to Hexham…

Croatia 27 May – 7 June
After a LOT of deliberation, we changed our summer holiday plans from heading up the West coast of Scotland in a car and tent to a sunny sightseeing trip to Croatia. Mainly this was due to the weather not looking…

An Sgarsoch and Carn an Fhidhleir
This was a 12 mile cycle in from the car. Pretty eventful walk! Davey forgot the maps so we had to borrow one from 2 ladies we met so that was lucky. I then fell down an ice sheet and…

Pentlands Walk (West Kip, East Kip & Scald Law) – May 21
We took advantage of the sun being out today and headed into the Pentlands for a 7.25 mile walk up the hills. Starting from Threipmuir we walked up over West Kip, East Kip and then over Scald Law which is…

New Lanark walk – May 4th 2014
Just getting round to putting up a few photos of a walk we did earlier this month at New Lanark World Heritage Site. The area is sat on the River Clyde and used to be cotton mills and housing for…

Easter Weekend – The Lakes!!
Keeping up our family tradition of heading to the Lake District in Easter, this year we stayed in a great self-catering property on the Rowley Estate just inbetween the small villages of Greystoke and Blencow, based in the north of…




