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~ Our honeymoon album arrived today. It’s only a year and a half for me to compile. Well, I started compiling it shortly before our first wedding anniversary, then my hard drive went boom and took all my work with…
Continue readingThe last leg of our 1,439 mile road trop to Scotland and back was uneventful. We arrived home at lunchtime-ish to be greeted by four loving cats. Sadly, only four though, with still no sign of little Miss Bella. We…
Continue readingOur journey across the Yorkshire Dales was sublime. From as far back as Carlisle the electronic signage was warning us about horse drawn vehicles on the A66. What we discovered was a horse fair finishing up and on a couple…
Continue readingAt 15:14 hours we crossed the border into England for the first time in over two weeks. Still, and crucially, on the the road trip part of our honeymoon, we spent the morning back in Edinburgh on the Mary King’s…
Continue readingBreakfast in Edinburgh started with scrambled eggs and smoked salmon; very nice. We didn’t get going quite as soon as we thought we might’ve, having slept very well in the cosy hotel bed, but when we did get going we…
Continue readingPacking and cleaning goes swiftly this morning and we are ready ahead of schedule to leave our little red-roofed cottage in the woods with the gurgling pipes and the peat-brown water. We walk down to the jetty as Paul goes…
Continue readingAt around 5 o’clock I headed down to The Bothy to collect our venison stew. It’s actually turned out to be a pie as Rose discovered that she didn’t have any suet but it looked delicious none-the-less. Whilst there, I…
Continue readingAnother quiet day on the island. Emma has kept the fire going for into the third day, so some time was spent getting it going again for day, stoking up the hot coals and refilling the skuttle from the coal…
Continue readingThis evening we were visited by at least three different pine martins, all as greedy as each other. I say ‘at least’ because we didn’t see which one of them snuck in at the beginning of the evening and stole…
Continue readingAfter yesterday’s exploits, I am sitting writing these pages now in front of a warm coal fire that Emma has succeeded in keeping alight since yesterday evening just by stoking and loading and tending it in the right way. Today…
Continue readingNo boat off the island today; not even if we wanted to. Not that we actually wanted to – preferring instead to have a quieter day. Not that the day was any less nice. We had a bit of a…
Continue readingAfter the *early* start to the day yesterday we had a bit more of a lie in and a leisurely start. When it came to the business of the day I was glad of the egg for breakfast for today…
Continue readingAn early start today; we are down at the jetty in good time to get the 9.30 boat across a loch of flat calm and low-tide-shallowness. We get the impression that Allistair is a little unimpressed that we have chosen…
Continue readingWith a bed that looks straight out through a large front window at a view across the loch to the east, we slept with the curtains open. So we woke several times during the night as dawn came early. We…
Continue readingAnother scorching day in Scotland. We have a full breakfast before checking out of our hotel and making our way pack-horse-style to the car again. Escaping Glasgow proves to be not as hideous as I feared after the arrival. An…
Continue readingLeaving Ambleside early-ish, we take a scenic route north-east and, pretty-much straight up, the side of a mountain. It’s fairly busy and we decide that the 1:4 road has suffered at the hands of sat-nav. At the top of the…
Continue readingIt was a dry but slightly grey morning, but over a full English breakfast the cloud burnt off and we had a nice drive south through the hills to Near Sawrey to visit Hill Top. Warned to go early we…
Continue readingWe set off a bit later than originally planned, starting off in grey skies and drizzle. By the time we reach Birmingham, the roads and the weather were clearing – we took the new M6 toll for the first time…
Continue readingWith some regret Iâve just cancelled our honeymoon to Namibia. Itâs been a tough decision for both of us but with my uncertain job future itâs the only sensible option. We have about half the money we need, with some…
Continue readingOur honeymoon is booked. 27 May to 10 June 2009, we shall be touring Namibia on our bespoke holiday courtesy of James at Audley Travel. It will be the biggest holiday of my life!
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