We were lucky with our weather the last few days in Ireland but today we had a taste of the rain that makes the Emerald isle..Emerald! We woke to grey skies but a pretty view from our room, looking back towards the church. Just before nine we headed off to…
Another early start this morning as I’d booked the rental car for 8am. We were aiming to cross the country from East to West so needed plenty of time up our sleeves. I’d booked the car at the Sixt office almost across the road from the hotel which meant minimal…
We finally treated ourselves in a bit of a sleep in this morning! It felt a bit indulgent to be going down to breakfast at 9.15am. A very busy breakfast, the hotel (The Academy Plaza) seems to be pretty full. Breakfast finished we hit the road on our walking tour…
After spending the evening trying to make each of our bags function like Dr Who’s Tardis and knowing we had to be up and at breakfast by 6.30 am neither of us slept very well. Luckily the breakfast at the Crowne Plaza Aberdeen Airport was a good one and the…
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…
