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We continued our Scotland trip heading north. We said goodbye to Mum and stopped to check out the pretty town of Fettercairn. We went down some single track country roads to avoid a bridge that would not take our weight – and also to avoid the Royal Arch where we saw a caravan get stuck…
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Gus’s engine was definitely leaking coolant so we said goodbye to Aileen and headed north to Forfar. We left the van at the garage who could fix it that afternoon and went looking for lunch and shelter from the cold wind. We went back to Saddlers for Forfar bridies – it’s a bit like Groundhog…
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We went across to Aileen and Mark’s near Cramond and caught up – it’s been a year since we saw each other. Aileen and I met in 1st year maths at Edinburgh University many eons ago. There were very few other girls in the class. We went to see Hopetoun House on the Firth of…
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We started the day waiting for the tide to go out so we could walk across to the island at Cramond, just outside Edinburgh on the Forth. Eventually it was clear and we made our way across checking out the birds as we went. There were swans, merganzer ducks, oyster catchers and a variety of…
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We left Forfar in wild windy and rainy conditions and stopped off at Perthshire Caravans – next to the famous Horn cafe – on the Dundee-Perth road. We picked up a few things we needed to fix up Gus – lights, new fire extinguisher and gas hose. We then stopped for a van lunch at…
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We left York in very windy showery weather. The wind was against us all the way across the Pennines – so hard that it pushed our side mirrors in towards the van. The views were stunning across the treeless landscape. We stopped for a very good lunch in Moffat at a cafe called Brodie’s. We…
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We were expecting to get Gus back on Thursday but due to a few small niggly repairs we didn’t get him back until Friday lunchtime. We had to quickly load him and then get on the road as we were expected at George and Lech’s in York for dinner. There were a few traffic jams…
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We got going early to deliver Gus for his service, MOT and habitation check. It was a rainy morning so we checked plans and Glenn organised the piles of stuff we had unloaded from Gus for the habitation check. We were a bit worried about the weather as we were going out for dinner at…
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We started the day with a visit from my niece Jess and 3 week old Margot. Glenn and Margot got on very well – they both have the same birthday separated by 60 years. They both were very sleepy. Then in the afternoon Glenn, Mum and I went to the Ham Wall RSPB bird reserve…
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I woke up at my usual early hour of 5.30am – I haven’t quite adjusted to UK time – and decided to go for a walk. It then took me an hour to get out of the Fort Knox secure house – no keys being immediately obvious. At last I escaped and had a ramble…