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We are now with Ian and Morag at their lovely house in Dunbar with a wonderful view out to sea. The weather has improved and over the last 2 days we have actually seen sunshine, although very windy. This is a bit of respite from our hectic trip around Scotland and a great lead in…

….and here is the weather report from Scotland: rain My daily blogs have truned into a bit of a weather report I’m afraid, so, sorry about that. Suffice to say from now on every day is wet, unless I say otherwise. This morning we went to Strathisla distillery at Keith (that’s a town, not a…

The headline from the local paper says it all: “The True Duchess of Sutherland returns to her Family Seat”. How they knew we were visiting Dunrobin Castle I’ll never know. So, today it is a 5 hour round drive to take said True Duchess to visit the family home. It has been a long time…

Well, that is why we are here in Speyside. There was sunshine early on but by the time we headed out the mizzle was on the go, again. Never mind, we dressed accordingly. Today we had a slower start with plans to stay local to the area and not so much driving. Our first appointment…

It was not a great outlook when we opened the curtains this morning, the rain was tumbling down and the mist was rising. Not to worry, just get on with it. If you wait for fine weather here, you will never do anything. Today we are off to the Cairngorm Mountains, south of where we…

We had a lovely sleep in today, as it was a public holiday (not there, in Aus). A late breakfast which unfortuately stayed with me all day……I have no idea now why I ordered Kippers for breakfast. Kirsty did the almost full Scottish breakfast, including black pudding, but they forgot the eggs. We then drove…

We took a slow start to the day, with a later than usual breakfast. I’m enjoying the long weekend and no work, although I will need to some later on today. After breakfast we just sort of hung out, watched the NRL Grand Final. Good game, wrong result. In the late morning we worked up…

We awoke to a day that promised no rain, no sunshine either, but at least a dry day. Our accommodation is fantastic. A huge room with views over the Loch to the mountains beyond. After a late breakfast (no work today !!) we decided on a walk into Torridon village. As luck would have it…

It was a wild and stormy night, the rain lashed the window panes….no, not the start of a crime thiller, it was real life at about 3am. The rain tipped it down, to quote Kirsty. By breakfast time it had not improved a great deal, but our very hearty full Scottish breakfast at our B…

Another travel day, this time from Glasgow to Dornie, near Lochalsh. We chose a new route so that we didn’t overlap with our trip down from Skye to Glasgow the other day. We headed out via Stirling and Perth, with the aim to be at Dalwhinnie for lunch. Dalwhinnie is a town where Kirsty’s Dad…