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You'd think after 5 weeks in Orkney and Shetland we'd have had enough "seal spotting" but a stop off at Newburgh Seal Beach proved otherwise. Hundreds of them hauled out on the beach for a rest at the entrance to the Riv…

Stopped off on the way to Fraserburgh to have a look at Dracula's Castle (i.e. the 2nd Slains Castle). Interesting history - https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/crudenbay/slainscastle/index.html - built after the ori…

From Fraserburgh, a pleasant drive along the A96 and the Moray Firth. Got a bit gnarly round Inverness with some roadworks and a sudden plague of roundabouts. Now at the very nice Lock Ness Bay campsite after having gone…

A good walk round three Scottish forestry ancient Caledonian pinewood walks in Glen Affric. Another case of going back to Liz's childhood holidays. Then we tried Plodda Falls which was a big mistake - worst road we've ev…

OK - so Fraserburgh wasn't our bestest ever choice for a night's stopover. We didn't really give it a fair chance - it was raining and the food wasn't too inspiring (please no - not another fish and chips!). And then the…

Down from Drumnadrochit to Pitlochry on the A82 alongside Loch Ness and the Caledonian Canal. Then the A86 along Glen Spean and the A9 though Glen Garry. All very picturesque and Scottish! Into Pitlochry for some wanderi…

Doing the tourist thing in Edinburgh. Princes Street, Royal Mile and Calton Hill. Didn't bother with going in to the castle itself. Good buses from the campsite (Mortonhall) to the centre of Edinburgh and Tye does appear…

Another stomp around Edinburgh - this time with the aim of getting Liz back to Arthur's Seat. Stopped at Holyrood for a coffee and a laugh at the entrance prices for the Palace. Then on to Arthur's Seat where I "mutinied…

Off the Lerwick to Aberdeen ferry at 07:00 and along to the river Dee to Potarch Bridge to meet one of Liz's childhood friends. Arrived a couple of hours early so went for a short stomp around the local woods. Met Claire…

From Weymouth round Portland Bill to Topsham at the top of the Exe. Stage three in bringing Derek H's new Fulmar back to the Exe. With very big Spring tides, we took the offshore route around the East Shambles buoy and a…

A hound beach walk while using up time waiting for the evening's ferry to Shetland. Tye liked the beach at Newark Bay - he preferred that bit of the walk to the section along the top of the coastline to the Point Of Ayre…

A visit to Tarbet and then back south along the "golden road". Lots of theories as to why it is called "golden" but most likely is the cost. The landscape is very "lunar" for much of the route - lots of rocks and some m…

Scooby's been complaining about "just going round the block" so we took him for a stroll from Budleigh Salterton to Otterton via East Budleigh (birthplace of Sir Walter Raleigh). Didn't see any beavers in the Otter River…

Down to Prawle Point - the most southerly point in Devon and a headland well known to sailors! Pint at the Pigs Nose pub.

Round the rebellious village of Colyton. Muddy. Very muddy. Like a muddy year at Glastonbury - say 1984 perhaps - but without 30000 people off their heads. Oh - and Scooby didn't like the hail at the end of the walk but…

First campervan trip of the year. To North Morte Farm as usual. Got lucky with weather - much better than forecast. Out towards Morthoe Point for our fish and chips.

With Scooby now a bit of an old boy, we did a shorter than usual walk round Morte Point. Age is no barrier to him lunging for sheep (he's on the lead) and eating sheep shit.

Took the Tribby for a run and gave the hound a walk from Moretonhampstead to North Bovey. Scooby left the sheep and cows alone but thought he might be hard enough to take on some horses. Why he can never be let off the l…

A short yomp around along Balranald beach to keep Scooby Hound happy and then continuing on round the headland that is Balranald nature reserve. Avoided most of the rain and the bogs and only got slightly lost once (whic…

Another rainy day with 40 mph winds so we set off in the van to do a circumnavigation of North Uist with a gtrip up to Berneray in the north. The drive round North Uist is maybe 30 miles on very good single track roads w…

Left Portavidie and crossed the Argyll peninsula to get a ferry across from Dunoon. Unfortunately, we didn't read the tiny icons on the CalMac timetable and turned up in a campervan at a ferry for foot passengers only.…

Back to Lizzie's favourite campervan site - North Morte Farm at Morthoe. A rather wet and windy day (it got windier!) so we did a pub crawl of all of Morthoe's pubs (the Chichester Arms and the Ship Aground) and then too…

Scooby wouldnt have been happy if we'd come to north Devon and not given him a run along Woolacombe Beach at low tide. In a fairly wet and windy two week holiday, this was the only walk where we actually got soaked by th…

Camper van at North Morte farm for the last day of their season. Took the hound for a walk along Woolacombe beach at low tide.

An over night stop in the peak district - near Kinder Scout - on the way up north. First injury to my back falling over pushing a stalled motor home out of a rut.

A walk up the valley gorge from Lymouth to Watersmeet. Very like the Teign Valley from Dogmarsh Bridge to Fingle Glenn except bigger. Much bigger. Path detailed in the guide book didnt seem to exist.

A stomp around the North Devon coast on the only misty day of our stay at North Morte campsite

A bit of a road trip around South Uist and Benbecula. The first "panoramic" photo is the view from the Co-op car park on Benbecula. Top lunch at the "Marine Supplies and Seafood Cafe" in Kallin. £3.50 for an excellent…

And Kilroy. And Aidan, Liz and Scooby. A walk round a bit of Arran taking in the cave where Robert The Bruce was meant to have watched the spider doing its thing. Part of drive right around the island of Arran - abou…

Woke up to 45 mph winds and teeming rain. Somehow 45 mph winds seem stronger here (where there is nothing between us and Newfoundland) than down in Devon. And the van has sprung a mini leak. Either that or one of us didn…