Blogs from Inverness-shire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 51

Well Easter's arrived, I've survived a Scottish winter. Despite being repeatedly told it was a very very mild winter, I felt sufficiently cold enough to require wearing an entire wardrobe of clothes a day. With the weather warming, forecast looking promising Anna, Fergus and myself decided to head to highlands for an Easter camping break. Upon making this decision there was a rapid purchase of tent, camping stove, sleeping bag and inflatable mattress…..kneel and pray to the ebay Gods! We set of on Saturday after a brief stay in Stirling, heading toward an increasingly dark cloud, which apparently was exclusively extended over Arisaig, west coast of Scotland, on the Road to the Isles. Set up our sparkling blue tent, glad that despite being a 4 person tent, there was only two of us a dog. We ... read more

Sean and I went to Loch Ness on his last day here, Saturday. We took a guided tour that went up the western part of the island to the loch and then down the middle in one day. We left at 8 in the morning and we were pretty tired as we had been out the night before. But we weren't the most tired people and some kid fell asleep before we even started to leave. The tour guide was some young guy who was kind of annoying but knew a lot of good stuff. We stopped at a bunch of places on the way there including Glencoe, the place where the highland clans supposedly died out after a big fight between two clans and the end of highland hospitality. It's kind of complicated so I'm ... read more

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This one is to say Merry Christmas, thank you for reading the blog. As I said I'll be returning to Australia in January, the 18th, Hogmany in Glasgow, and 5 days in London first, so hope to catch up with a good few people then. Should be a Melbourne City guide in my Christmas Stocking. Lots more photos on the blog as you may of noticed, not all that great, I'm not much of a photographer and most occasions I forget to take the damn thing with me. Did leave my address book, mobile, diary in London so slight problem contacting peoples this holiday, oops. robinmaclean@yahoo.co.uk Merry Christmas!... read more

Singapore was a great refresh, sitting out in the steamy gardens, then getting a nice long hot shower. Then the long flight back to London, 14 hours, ouch, over India, Iran, Cental Europe etc, had a scare when the entertainment was not working but they got it fixed, after all if the entertainment system is not working, think of the other things that could go wrong. Touched down back at Heathrow at 5am, the earliest Heathrow would let us, and was delighted to see things had not changed, due to staff shortages the ticket office at the underground was not to be manned that morning, brilliant. Made my way in the early stages of rush hour to Gatwick, hung around there for ages in fatigued daze, then got my short Easyjet flight up to chilly Inverness ... read more