Welcome to our blog about our holiday in Scotland! See below for daily updates on what we’ve seen and done.

  • My favourite photos

    My favourite photos from the trip!


  • Day Fifteen Gallery


  • Day Fifteen – Glasgow to Home

    Final day, the trip back home. And another 4 and a half hours added onto the previous day’s 6 and a half! The only reason though to add this post…


  • Day Fourteen Gallery


  • Day Fourteen – Ullapool to Glasgow

    For our final day, before driving back home on Saturday from Glasgow, we had a long drive planned from Clachan Gardens, just south of Ullapool, through Glencoe. Unfortunately this meant…


  • Day Thirteen Gallery


  • Day Thirteen – Lewis to Ullapool

    Our final day in the Western Isles and we had the most incredible sunrise to watch from bed, along with a pair of white tailed eagles who were doing their…


  • Day Twelve Gallery


  • Day Twelve – Harris and Lewis

    Our last day in the Outer Hebrides, and last in the Western Isles, as tomorrow we (ferry permitting) cross back to the Scottish mainland. We spent time on Harris and…


  • Day Eleven Gallery


  • Day Eleven – Harris & Lewis

    We woke hoping for a less traumatic day – sadly we woke to no power! We’d heard various devices an appliances clicking on and off just before we woke up…


  • Day Ten Gallery


  • Day Ten – Isle of Skye to Harris

    With the car waiting at the garage for its tyre repair, we left our hobbit house for breakfast – one of the best yet. I then left Jo at the…


  • Day Nine Gallery


  • Day Nine – Isle of Skye

    A most excellent breakfast this morning – kedgeree (which the waiter insisted was pronounced “kedegree” until the kitchen corrected him…then he got wrong again when he served it), kippers, pastries,…


  • Day Eight Gallery


  • Day Eight – Isle of Mull to Isle of Skye

    Customer service announcement. This post contains a catastrophic event, not for the easily disturbed. We are also currently (as of 10pm) marooned on Skye. An early-ish start today to ensure…


  • Day Seven Gallery


  • Day Seven – Mull and Iona

    The original plan was a boat trip to Staffa, an island with giant basalt columns, but we decided to not do this when the boat tour we’d booked cancelled the…


  • Day Six Gallery


  • Day Six – Mull

    The big day – our wildlife tour. Spoiler – we saw golden eagles. And other stuff. It’s worth noting that a lot of what we saw today was a very,…


  • Day Five Gallery


  • Day Five – Oban to Isle of Mull

    After breakfast in a local place, we stocked up on lunch for the next 2 days at the Oban M&S Simply Food, then headed to the port for our next…


  • Day Four Gallery


  • Day Four – Kintyre to Oban

    We headed off from our accommodation in Ronachan around 10am to drive north towards Oban. Two stops planned, both in search of wildlife. The first was a bird hide at…


  • Day Three Gallery


  • Day Three – Kintyre

    We spent most of the day on the southernmost inhabited island of the Inner Hebrides, about 3 miles off the coast of the Kintyre peninsula – Gigha. About 5.4 square…


  • Day Two Gallery


  • Day Two – Arran, then on to Kintyre

    The plan today was time on Arran, then ferry across to Kintyre on the mainland where we’d be staying for 2 nights. Breakfast wasn’t too bad (we also had poached…


  • Day One Gallery


  • Day One – Arran via Ardrossen

    After a good sleep, we headed out to find breakfast – a 25 minute walk down to the River Clyde, and along a bit. The mist was hanging over the…


  • Day Zero Gallery


  • Day Zero – Glasgow via Penrith

    The day that wasn’t originally planned…. We set off at 7am. Not because we had a ferry to catch, as that was booked for Saturday afternoon, but because Jo had…


  • Another road trip!

    We’re off to Scotland, for a two week road trip around the Inner and Outer Hebrides. With 9 ferries to catch, 13 hotels to stay in, 1,550 miles to cover…