Summer! So that means that the Highland Games in Scotland will be starting. I had hoped that we would be lucky and find some event close by that we could visit and we were. Not only were the games close by, only 15 miles or so away in the town of Dufftown (I can’t help […]
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We had a couple of days where we could explore a bit in the Highlands of Scotland, before our house sit actually began so we took the opportunity to explore a bit further afield than our base since we don’t like to go too far away when in charge of pets (even if the owners […]
On our slow journey north to our house sit, we stopped halfway at a cheap Travelodge in Kinross. For some reason, the kids absolutely love Travelodge rooms and get very excited to stay in them! All I am thinking is that they at least won’t have high standards when they go to travel as adults! […]
We had wanted to spend a couple of days in Holland, but J’s eye problems meant that we spent an extra night in Germany and had to strip a day from our Holland idea. We did manage to spend one night there, in Gouda, which was really nice especially as I’d never been to Holland […]
When we decided to go to Germany we had a few ideas of places to see, and visiting Neuschwanstein castle, the fairy tale Bavarian castle of Ludwig II, was high on the list. Being on a tight budget on this road trip around Europe means that inevitably we have to make some choices about what […]
We’re taking a year off from the rat race along side our kids so you can probably guess that I do think that travel is going to be worth it for our kids. But really, and especially in the case of younger kids, will they remember it? And if they won’t then is it worth […]
When we decided that we’d travel around Europe in a campervan for our big trip, we felt it would be quite a budget way of doing it. Of course, travel budgets are bandied about quite a lot and I’ve said before that we intend this trip to be at the very budget end of the […]
Remember remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot… A friend and I were discussing purely British celebrations the other week and we came up with Guy Fawkes Night and nothing else. Do we have any other events that we only celebrate […]
Well, we did it. We finally saved enough to buy ourselves a campervan. I can’t quite believe we have one, probably because she’s not staring at us every day as we’re keeping her on my mums drive for now. Anyway, here she is. She is a 1988 Fiat Dethleffs Globetrotter. She’s a little bit old, […]
The Isle of Rum in Scotland has a mysterious exterior. From the beach on the mainland that we camped near we kept looking for it over the sea. We could see the isle of Eigg, sometimes, but Rum just kept itself hidden behind a load of cloud. On the morning that we set off we […]
