Travelling Trappies

We did a slight detour  at the start of the route to Loch Ness - to try and spot   Nessie - no luck   😞! Before heading North East out past Inverness.... What an amazing trip around the top of Scotland. We have survived the NC500 – just!  Did manage to dislocate both our grey water and fresh water pipes meaning we lost all our fresh water on one leg (bummer) and all our grey water on another (yay – saved us from having to empty it at the campground!). Luckily both of them were easy fixes – they are designed to come apart rather than break, so we just fitted them back together, refilled and off we went on the next leg. The roads are single lanes for a large part of the route with passing places (about the size of a car) placed on both sides at various intervals. So, if you see a car coming then you stop at the next passing spot and wait, or they wave you through. When you don’t see them till it’s too late, one of you has to back up to the closest space! Not entirely ...

Sin sibh a h-uile duine (Hi everyone), failte gu Alba (welcome to Scotland). Lang may yer lum reek (wishing someone a long & healthy life apparently!) Well it’s been an interesting first week or so in Scotland. It’s been very windy, bitterly cold, sunny, warm and everything in between!!!   Unfortunately Trap & I caught a cold in Edinburgh so we ended up hunkering down in Aberdeen for 3 nights – taking lots of drugs (meds) and resting – I still have a bit of a cough but we’re definitely improving. As many of you know, Edinburgh is a gorgeous city full of history & culture. Our holiday park was about 35 mins outside the CBD but there was a bus at the end of the driveway that took us straight there, so was very easy. We managed to get a new 3-month prescription for Trap from a prescribing pharmacist, although we now know how much the the meds cost when they’re not subsidised!!!! After a visit to the castle and medication searching on day one, we hopped on the hop on/...

  Ey ‘up. Well, we’re embracing the holiday park culture – last night there was cash bingo followed by karaoke and the lovely man who won the bingo shouted us a drink – go the Northerners!!!! We also made some new friends who have a permanent/static caravan/cabin at the park. So, backing up the bus (or motorhome) a bit, since I last wrote, we’ve arrived in the UK. London was a lovely surprise with beautiful weather and mid-twenties temps. We stayed at a fab “BnB” - Chez Camilla, and after a wee nap, I took a wander down the Embankment along the Thames – Chez Cam is in Lambeth one block back from the river, so within 5-10 minutes I was staring across at Parliament Buildings. It’s been a good 10 years since we were last in London and I had forgotten what a lovely, vibrant city it can be. There were lots of tourists wandering about but also lots of residents out enjoying the sun. Cycling has really taken off since I was last here with bicycle hire stands everywhere. Also, along the Em...