Blogs from Inverness-shire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 52

My family are going away in a week’s time. The things I will miss most are normalness and my friends. I am really exited but am really scared and sad at the same time. I am exited because you don’t normally spend five, FIVE, months travelling the world! I am scared because I don’t know what I’m going to find out until I find out. I am sad because my friends can’t come with me. I wrote this for school as an example of what I feel. ... read more

Aberdeen was fairly quiet, after looking around the town we played some pool and watched some TV (which was nice for a change to just relax and do very little). The following day (Tuesday 21st) I went on a boat tour of Loch ness. At first it was raining and windy but then it cleared up and the sun shone bright. The tour was great unfortunately “Nessy” didn’t show. After the Loch Ness boat tour I drove up to Ullapool in the North West highlands to check out the scenery. The drive up was very pretty, an on off downfall of rain left little whitewater rivers running down all the hills everywhere spilling into large torrents of water which madly surged down the valley on their way to the lochs. The stop off in Ullapool was ... read more

Ronan has found a new interest ....cleaning his teeth, he got a travel toothbrush, in two halves and the brush bit clips inside the handle, he loves it...not that my children are hard done by or anything, I mean we are taking them around the world, but when a toothbrush for a few coppers porvides such worthwhile entertainment, who needs a play station 2. I have a new rucksack which required Talitha's help to work out...In all the years of climbing mountains, I have never had a rucksack that required an instruction manual (luckily printed on the inside of the back panel cover - which hides all the straps away for air flights) There are lots of zips and a baby rucksack which zips to it (which Ronan has decided is his, and now houses his ... read more

2 weeks now, me and Dad arguing about what to take. Having to carry all my stuff will be a pain! Mums got most of the stuff we need now! We have the visas we need for all the different places. It's over 27 thousand miles!! ... read more

After a great week on the farm, Ben and I went our separate ways; Ben to another farm in Fort William, and I heading further north to bounce around to a few different corners of the Scottish Highlands. I actually stayed in Fort William the first night too, in a nice hostel overlooking the town. Fort William, the "outdoors capital" of Scotland, is a small town but it felt pretty busy after living on a remote farm for a week. The next day, I boarded another bus to the little fishing village of Ullapool on the Northwest coast. Ullapool is a beautiful town on a sea loch surrounded by mountains where I saw some of the best sunrises and sunsets of my life. The first night I met two Irish guys who were there for a ... read more