Our day started bright and ready to head to the coast where a causeway crosses the Wadden Sea to the small island of Mandø. The small country roads were quiet as we drove out of Ribe, and the further out we got the more greenery there was surrounding each house we passed. The sky was…
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Haweswater Bivvy!
It was a beautiful drive into the valley – Haweswater is probably the least inhabited valley in the Lake District. It is managed by the RSPB and it definitely feels more wild than most of the others. Surrounded by big peaks it is a great place for walking and obviously we weren’t the only ones…
Scotland 07/18 | Sunshine in the Morning and Woodlands by Awe
Upon awaking and seeing the sun shining on the contours of the mountains, against a back drop of powder blue I woke Callum up to tell him what a lovely morning it was… poor fellow. I was torn between getting up to enjoy it and staying cosy allowing myself to sleep a little longer. Sleepiness…
Scotland 07/18 | Breakfast in Glenelg and an Evening Swim
So, we had a rather interesting wake-up call – a helicopter passing ridiculously close by roused me enough to jump up and see what was going on out the window. However the noise didn’t die down, as expected of a vehicle passing by, and so I ventured out the van to find that it was…
Scotland 07/18 | Back from the Bothy and over the Bealach Na Ba
It was around 6am when I woke up and it took me a second to recognise my unfamiliar surroundings, I thought about dozing but the hard floor encouraged me to get up and get ready for the day. Whilst getting ready, I managed to slice my finger open, it wasn’t a large cut but it…
Scotland 07/18 | Bothy Bound on the Applecross Peninsula
After a night of heavy rain, I actually exclaimed out loud with glee when we awoke to clear blue skies. There were soft clouds rolling in the distance but Raasay was drenched in the bright morning light, illuminating all the details of its coastline. With the door open we packed up slowly, watching the clouds…
Scotland 07/18 |Castles in the Sea, Swimming in the Sound
We awoke to a grey morning, the clouds hung low over the peaks and there were a few inversions whisping between the crags. It was fairly dull and there was a lot of moisture hanging in the air so it wasn’t too long before we were heading off for our next destination and the next…
Scotland 07/18 |Wild Swimming on Day One
We left later than we planned and headed straight up the motorway, the van packed up for a week of exploring, in no time at all we crossed the border into bonnie Scotland and our holiday officially began! We drove for around 4 hours, the start of the journey nondescript as always but eventually heading…
Canoe & Bivvy!
We seem to be in the middle of an endless summer, extremely uncharacteristic of the Lake District we have had continuous sunshine and next to no rainfall. The becks are drying up, not great for those houses plumbed straight from these water sources (and that is a surprising number in a rural area like this),…
Scottish Borders: Downpours Like No Other!
On our return walk from Dryhope Tower, this time taking the route we should have taken rather than meandering through the wildflowers, the clouds stopped looking ominous in the distance but loomed over us threateningly. We were too much in holiday mode to hurry so we sauntered back nonchalantly as though it was still a…
Journey Far 