We woke up at 8am – very late for us. It had been a very quiet night so nothing disturbed us.  We went down to Talkin Tarn to check it out and have our van breakfast there. It is a lovely lake with lots of activities there. We checked out the wildlife art in the…

We got up to a lovely morning with a very still glassy sea. Nigg is just opposite where oil rigs are usually constructed and deconstructed. It’s now assembling turbines that will go in the sea. After breakfast we packed up drove down the street to the very good coffee shop the Last Splash. It was…

The weather was a little overcast, cool and almost rainy. It was very quiet when we went for a little walk along the coast path in Nairn. Until we discovered the organizers setting up for Parkrun Nairn. We got out of there before the running started.  We left Nairn and drove north onto the Black…

When we got up at 7.30 it was very cool in Tomintoul – probably around 12 degrees. We got dressed quickly and out in our walk – the circular walk around Tomintoul.  It starts off down a fenced off trail through the fields with views of the hills.  It then goes up the old military…

Glenn and I did our early morning walks round the loch – but this time in very foggy conditions as the haar had not cleared.  You couldn’t see from one end of the loch to the other.  It was quieter this morning – the fog had discouraged a lot of walkers.  However the swans and…

Glenn got up early to do some birdwatching at 6.30am. I went for a walk around the loch at 7.30am. It was cool but sunny. There’s lots of algae on the loch but it doesn’t bother the wildlife. We arrived back at the van at the same time at 8.30am.  We had a quick breakfast…

We had a nice breakfast and lots more catching up with Ruth and Geoff so we left later around 11am.  We tried to dodge the Edinburgh roadworks but still got held up for 10 minutes. We eventually got on our way and enjoyed crossing the new bridge the Queensferry crossing across the Forth.  We had…

We left York campsite and headed north towards Scotland. We did a quick shop on the edge of Newcastle and then continued into Scotland. We turned off and weaved though the very narrow streets of historic Coldingham to get to the National Trust carpark for St Abbs Head. Luckily we didn’t meet anything bug coming…

We got up late after our big soccer night. George came to collect us later in the morning to go into the city to watch the dragon boat racing on the river. On our way Glenn found Jeremy Clarkson and his beer that Glenn has been enjoying. The dragon boating is a charity event where…

It was another sunny and cool morning – great in a heatwave.  After getting going we drove to Torksey Quay which is a lock on the end of the Roman-dug Fossedyke where it meets the River Trent. There is a coffee shop here so we enjoyed a flat white beside the canal watching only a…