Recently I watched Outlander on Amazon Prime and it left me wanting to visit some of the beautiful locations used in the series. Like a lot of viewers it also left me wondering if there were actually any standing stones near Inverness. Fortunately my parents had started watching Outlander too and were one step ahead of me. They had found Clava Cairns near Culloden Battlefield just outside Inverness so last weekend my Dad took John and I to have a ... Read the Post...
Camping at Southend on The Mull of Kintyre
The Mull of Kintyre is a very special place for my partner John so when we had a few days to spare we decided to revisit his favourite childhood holiday destination, Southend. We stayed with his parents on The Isle of Bute before getting the (tiny) ferry to Colintraive and driving around Argyll's Secret Coast. After navigating the sometimes hairy single track roads to Portavadie we caught the third ferry of our trip to the lovely ... Read the Post...
A Big Step and Planning for the Future*
*This is a sponsored post. All thoughts and opinions are my own. John and I are in the process of buying our first house! It's a 3 bed semi on the outskirts of Carlisle and we are very excited to have a place to call our own. After 8 years of renting flats near the city centre I can't wait to have a garden and a driveway! Here's a sneak peak of the garden.. The impending responsibility of owning a property is making me feel like a ... Read the Post...
The Isle of Bute, Scotland
Recently John's parents were holidaying on The Isle of Bute where they had found a house they wanted to buy to retire to. We were heading to The Mull of Kintyre for a camping trip so decided to get the ferry from Wemyss Bay on the mainland to gatecrash the last night of their holiday and break up our journey. We were keen to find out why Heather and Brian wanted to move to The Isle of Bute and see the house they had chosen. When we arrived in ... Read the Post...