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The real Westeros – Scotland’s Secrets #12
Wester Ross is the informal name for that part of Scotland where the Highlands meet the west coast. Its borders are not precisely defined, running from somewhere close to Skye to the vast expanse of rock and moorland north of Ullapool. It … Continue reading
Scotland’s Secrets #7 – The Bealach na Ba
The Bealach na Ba, Gaelic for the Pass of the Cattle, is the steepest road in the United Kingdom. It is only three miles long but the climb, from sea level to the summit, is a rise of 2053 feet or more … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Applecross, Camping, Photography, Scotland, Travel
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Over the sea to Skye – Scotland’s Secrets #6
Despite the famous song, most visitors to Skye arrive not by boat but by road, crossing the bridge constructed in the early 1990s between the island and Kyle of Lochalsh on the mainland. Skye is the largest island in the … Continue reading
The Isle of Harris, Scotland’s Caribbean
Harris, together with its conjoined twin Lewis, forms the largest island in the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. As both names for the archipelago suggest, this is a remote place, over 60 miles from the mainland. It can be … Continue reading
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Ice cream, sea monsters and sandwiches – rainy day activities in Vermont, USA
The propensity for precipitation that brings snow to Vermont in the winter also brings rain in the summer. On the eve of our last full day in the State the rain began and the weather forecast suggested that it would … Continue reading
Summer in ski country – Vermont, USA
Vermont is a verdant state. A mixture of mountains and fertile farmland, the landscape is straight from the pages of a tourist brochure, all red-timbered barns, trees and cows. The topography makes Vermont a mecca for skiing. We were based a few miles, … Continue reading
No lighthouses but a lot of lobster – Maine, USA
Before I visited Maine I imagined it to be a place of open vistas, dramatic cliffs, seascapes with crashing waves, flashing lighthouses on solitary rocks, big cloud-filled skies. I’m not quite sure where this idea came from as it was … Continue reading
Magic in the White Mountains – New Hampshire, USA
After a cold and wet night at a campsite south of Montreal, a city I unexpectedly disliked, we headed for the US border, crossing briefly in to Vermont before pushing south and east to our home for the night near … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Camping, New Hampshire, Photography, Travel, USA
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Fools at the Falls – Niagara, Canada
Jetlag can be a terrible thing. It stops our brains from functioning and inhibits decision making. It is not what we need when attempting to deal with the new and unfamiliar. In the UK we love giving and following instructions. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Camping, Canada, Niagara Falls, Photography, Travel, USA
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The Strange and the Familiar – Revisited
In late May 2015, not long after I had started this blog and before I settled on what to write about, we set off on a three week camping trip to Ontario, Canada and New England, USA. When we came … Continue reading
