Blogs from Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 14

UK Roadtrip #1 June 28th - June 30th Anna and I set out on the evening of the 27th and took an 8-hour megabus up to Glasgow. Had a brief rest/freshen up the morning of the 28th at sufi family house of patrick and rosaleen (and her son liam who i hadn't seen in seven years!), and then on to helensburgh and in search of this tent state out in the boondocks. We were quite unsure of where we were going until we suddenly happened upon it. The first thing I noticed is that is was very quiet. I wondered if we were in the right place. The second thing I noticed was that it looked really small. All I could see was about 3 tents and a camper van, which perplexed me since when I ... read more

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Traveled all the way back from Oban to Tunbridge Wells, about 525 miles from about 11am to 8pm. Felt awful all the way back and the two or three times we briefly stopped I felt like I was going to collapse. It was good to finally get back to the flat and some home comforts!... read more

We left Birmingham (we stopped at Iain's last night to make the trip a bit easier) at 9am and 9 hours later we reached Oban on the west coast of Scotland. It's quite a busy port with views over to the Isle of Mull and has fairly rugged Highland scenery. We pitched up at the Oban Camping & Caravanning Park, about 1.5 miles south of the town on a windy thin road that followed the coast. It's a pretty cool campsite (though expensive at £10.50 for a pitch! ) The site also had several mallard ducks that constantly waddled the site. During the night a group of three males and one females slept next to our tent. The atmosphere was thick with midges so we sprayed on some of our Boots insect repellent. This only seemed ... read more

Hey everyone!! Sorry if this e-mail is brief or vague but i just responded to my e-mails in my inbox after not checking for a week (so if you wanted more detail blame Sophie as she had sent me 3 e-mails!!!). So anyway when i last left the post i had just spent some time in Colchester with my Aunt and Mum and had travelled down to Mersea for some really nice seafood (I had a big bowl of mussels!!) and a walk around (where there was sand Daniel ... SAND!!). Anyway the next few days were mostly spent organising trips to various places which i'll tell you about as they occur (wouldn't want to spoil the surprise!!!). I was going to go somewhere over Easter but to travel was really expensive and everything was ... read more