RIGHT TO THE TOP OF BRITAIN! Our Scottish Highland road trip continued today as we headed due north from the Black Isle, bound for Thurso. We covered about 300km in a little over 8 hours, stopping every few minutes (or os it seemed!) for photos. We had been […]
WE’RE GOING ON A SCOTTISH ROAD TRIP! We enjoyed driving ourselves around Fort William so much yesterday that we’ve decided to commit ourselves to a week-long road trip around the Scottish Highlands. The public transport options around here are few and far between (not surprising given the small […]
TOURING THE WESTERN HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND There’s so much to see and do around Fort William that we just couldn’t decide on ONE thing to explore for today. Instead we got ourselves a rental car and saw it all! We took ourselves on a tour of the western […]
THE THIN PLACES OF SCOTLAND There is a Celtic saying that heaven and earth are only 3 feet apart, but in the “thin places” that distance is even smaller and you can get a sense of what lies on the other side. The Rock of Cashel in Ireland […]
OBAN GETS OUR SEAL OF APPROVAL We made it up into the Scottish highlands today and it is awesome! Not since Iceland or Switzerland have we seen scenery so vast and epic. From the gently rolling hills to the heights of the mountains; from the deep, dark depths […]