Today is what I think of, on these trips, as a “dead” day. We really wanted to be in Orkney but couldn’t get a ferry until tomorrow and it being the far north of Scotland there was not much to…

Pleasant though the site at Altnaharra was, we decided to move on today. We realised that if we were going to go to the Orkneys we needed to get a move on – we only have just over 2 weeks…

7th June 2018 Our overnight wildcamping spot was not very far from the main road across the north of Scotland, but our night was peaceful. It must be the quietest night we have ever spent next to a main road,…

6th June 2018 Yesterday evening the team were treated to an sad spectacle. Two middle aged couples pitched relatively near to us, one in a tent and the other in a camper van. They started drinking together in the late…