Monday 6 August: Off to Lindisfarne
Up and out at 7 am for another hours fishing before we drive down to Lindisfarne which is only about 50 miles south of us. Nice easy drive and we are there 2 hours too early as the tide is not out y...
Sunday 5 August: North Berwick for another day
As always Susan was awake very early so by default so was I, a short walk round the clifftops then bike off for a little pedal along the coast road which is reasonably flat. It was a beautiful morni...
Saturday 4 August: Exploring North Berwick
Up, breakfast and a short walk up the hill and across the golf course to Tesco, we needed to use the “facilties” and again we had run out of some essentials i.e. butter and rum. Shopping...
Friday 3 August: Messing about in boats
Slept Ok but it was very noisy as it rained most of the night. We were up at 6:30 and used the facilities.. quite a luxury strange how a week away makes even the simple things much more appreciated....
Thursday 2 August: Its too wet, we are leaving Mull
We had over 20 miles of single track costal road to negotiate today and had no idea what we would encounter. One thing we did not want to encounter was any traffic coming the other way so we were up...
Wednesday 1 August: Calgary bay
Woke up nice and dry so that is good news as the worse thing that can happen to one of these vans is they leak. Susan went for a walk along the cliffs and I just slept until she came back then we ha...
Tuesday 31 July: Off to Mull
It had rained a little overnight so I shoveled up a load of gravel from loch Nell to put under the tyres and fil in some of the deep gouges I had made the day before. Started the van and put it in r...
Monday 30 July: Into Oban to shop
First thing Monday we moved to the location Jim had recommended the day before. It turned out to be a very lovely spot right on the Loch side it was however very small and we almost managed to get the...