We woke to a greyer day today and a long drive ahead so there was no relaxing lie in ( although, who am I kidding, we almost NEVER have a relaxing lie on on our holidays!) . We drove back through the town of Thurso but this time headed off…
Another of our earlier starts this morning. We’d selected the 7 am breakfast sitting as we needed to checkin for the Orkney Islands ferry by 7.45 am. Back to the full Scottish for me this morning but I opted for a potato scone instead of toast. The Scottish potato scone…
We went down to breakfast promptly at 8 am which was when they said the opened, as we had along days drive ahead, and nabbed a table by the window. I could easily get used to breakfast with a loch view my Eggs Benedict was delicious! We were on the…
One of the big inspiration for the Scotland part of our holiday this year was ehn Neil had come across some information about the North Coast 500 driving route.It’s is a 516-mile (830 km) scenic route around the north coast of Scotland, starting and ending at Inverness Castle. The route…
We had opted for the 8.30 sitting at breakfast this morning so we could get an early start on our drive around Skye. We were also keen to try to get a little ahead of the weather which started out grey but was reported to get gradually worse all day.…
We woke to a brighter day this morning and a wonderful full Scottish breakfast which included an excellent Black Pudding, you know you’re in Scotland when there’s black pudding on the menu…now I only need haggis and I’ll be happy 🙂 We didnt hang around though as we were…
We had to get up at, as Simon calls it, stupid-oclock to get to the airport in time to catch out flights from Keflavik airport. It was sad to say goodbye to Simon and Jatta but at least we know we will see them again in a couple of weeks…
It was raining when I went to sleep and raining when I woke but I slept like a log in between, all that fresh air helps! We had a longer drive today and a deadline to meet so we set out promptly at 8.30 and drove back through Akureyri town…
The Old School House was a very comfortable AirBnb loction, however it is set up with one apartment on the ground floor ( us) and one apartment on the top floor ( a family of heavy footed hippos!) We were woken at 7am by the hippos as they were getting…
Breakfast this morning was tasty but the best thing about the meal was the view! The other nice thing about the morning was a hot shower. We had no hot water last night at all in our room or Simon’s which was a bit of a worry. Fortunately we could…
We really were blessed today. It was an absolutley extraordinary day of amazing scenery in glorious sunshine, something we learned has been in short supply here over the summer. We had a big day of sightseeing planned so we hit the road promptly at 9am for a short drive down…
Iceland certainly lived up to the hype today! We woke to more rain and drove out of Reykjavik in heavy showers which wasn’t very encouraging. However they tell you that if you don’t like the weather in Iceland just wait 5 minutes and it will change…and it certainly did! Throughout…
