Scotland in general

Being born and brought up in England, Scotland had always been one of the places that I intended to visit, but never quite got around to doing so. That is until a couple of years ago. As an extended weekend break for my Husband's birthday we booked a short break with a local coach travel company which included a stay at The Spittal of Glenshee which is close to Deeside. The coach journey from our home in East Yorkshire was rather long and drawn out. Primarily we travelled on the motorway and so the scenery was sparse to say the least. It was late October and the weather during the journey saw everything from sun, to rain, to hail and to snow. As we stopped at the ...

I have always been a big fan of rain. As long as I know there are clean dry clothes waiting for me at the other end of a rain shower, a hot bath, a nice wee drink, I’m happy. It’s great for my garden, makes all the pretty flowers grow, and saves me lugging great hefty buckets and watering cans about. Fantastic. Rain is something that comes with the territory of walking the West Highland Way. When I did it, in the middle of June, expecting maybe to come home with a tan that might make me look less like a milk bottle and more like someone who’s been lounging by a pool in Costa Rica, it rained every single day. Yes, that’s Every Single Day. But you know what? I loved ...

People of Dooyoo As penance for spending the majority of last week feeding on the oh so tasty MaryanneH, it falls upon me to give you a tour of the West Coast of Scotland, an incredibly beautiful part of the British Isles. Now I first met MaryanneH outside her tent in Inver Coe, at the foot of Glencoe, right on the banks of Loch Leven. The Highlands of Scotland are famous for two things, having really big hills, might even call them mountains and loads of Lochs (that?s Lakes for all you English folks out there). The loch, as with any stretch of water, ...