Mountains. Lochs. Sea. Heathland and bog. Loch sides. Beach sides. Roadsides. Pub car parks and campsites. Haggis. Chips. Macaroni cheese. Great beer and a fair few drams. Take a month if you have it. Our two weeks was just about enough. Whatever you do take as long as you can. But if you have a […]
Scotland
Smoo, Scourie, Beinn Eighe and Loch Ness.
Smoo. Cool name. Small place. We camped in the Smoo Cave Hotel and ate there too. The hotel’s seasonal cliental is a curious mix. Hard living locals at their only watering hole, playing pool, the juke box, and probably having a scrap now and then. And rather genteel tourists feeling out of place but excited […]
The Crask Inn
I intend to keep stories short and sweet, ideally a weekly catch up, but this lonely place deserves its own post. The Crask Inn. Lairg. The Crask Inn could be Britain’s most remote inn. It’s certainly one of the most rewarding. Of course any measure of extremes depends on the author, so let me set […]
The Anderson and other adventures.
The Anderson. Fortrose, on the Black Isle. The Anderson does little to tempt you in. No lights. A closed door. A sense of foreboding. And the grime of years leaving windows looking abandoned. Thankfully we didn’t let that put us off and pushed at an entrance that might have been barred for a decade. All […]