Author Archives: Greg

We decided to have a castle free day today, so a good part of our morning was the drive up into the Scottish Highlands (see my trivia note at the very end of this blog) and visit some different old … Continue reading →

We enjoyed a sleep in this morning, both of us got about 8hrs sleep which was good. We were on the road heading northeast around 9am. It is Saturday, so the roads in St Andrews were quiet. Our day started … Continue reading →

We left our hotel and picked up our hire car, a Citroen Cactus and were on the road heading north about 9am. We drove across the Firth of Forth and after missing a turn off, got back on track and … Continue reading →

We were picked up at 9:20am and were sitting in the airport by 10:30am waiting for our 12:20pm flight.  Flight got away at 13:20, it was late getting in. The crew are Scottish and I am finding them hard to … Continue reading →

We started early today, after cleansing sulphur assisted showers, we figured we were ready for anything! Seriously, the water here at our hotel has a strong sulphur aroma to it. Something to do with the volcanic ground water here at … Continue reading →

When we opened the curtains this morning we were greeted with a view of clouds rolling down the distant mountains. They looked like an avalanche captured in time, as beautiful as amazing. We were picked up from our hotel and … Continue reading →

We were all packed and in a taxi to the airport on time at 10am. Pity our flight wasn’t on time. Deb got a message saying it was now leaving at 13:30 rather than the 12:55 scheduled time. By the … Continue reading →

We had a little dilemma today, Manchester is about 90 mins away from Cartmel, we can’t check in at our accommodation until 3pm, so we looked around for things to do in the morning. Cate, our host, suggested we visit … Continue reading →

We had a quiet sort of day today in the lead up to a few days of traveling. We took a drive north to the small lakeside village of Coniston. The village is set on the north west edge of … Continue reading →

We left Keswick a bit before 9am this morning and headed south, exploring as we went. Our first stop was on the southern side of Windermere, we got a good park on the side of the main road just past … Continue reading →