- Feb 24, 2013
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A few weeks ago we flipped a coin to decide on travelling to Germany or Scotland
Both had their good reasons to be picked and it almost went to Germany, but the slightly weighted coin came down in favour of our marginal preference for this trip, Scotland
More specifically the western isles, formerly Outer Hebrides, although to get there we pass through some spectacular scenes in the Scottish highlands
No real plans, nothing booked, we start from southerly point with a family weekend near Stratford, till Monday, pop over to Mo's place on Monday night , get new rear rubber on Tuesday from P + B Tyres Oswestry
Work gets in the way as it has a habit of and I need to get to a meeting in Malton on Wednesday morning but then we head north properly, hopefully over the border on Wednesday night 29th Aug
Then the only fixed event is picking Mum back up on the 20th September, so home for 19th
We love the western isles and tell everyone as often as is appropriate, sounds like we might even bump into a few funsters over there this trip but the drive there is pretty good as well, we prefer the Uig (Skye) to North Uist or Harris partly price, it is the cheapest way to get there, but also time on board, it is cheapest because it is the shortest route, just under 2 hours, better for Bev and Lola
Once over on the islands we haven't yet decided whether to travel north to south or vice versa, but I really like Harris so will probably end there, or might actually start and end there for the western isles bit
One night up the Findhorn Valley hoping for our spectacular deer sightings which we missed last time due to masses of midges hoping the late August early September will be better, last time was mid August, we really should have known better
Probably will not book the ferries until much closer to the time so we can modify plans if the weather isn't good for sea crossings, will update with stop points, photos, costs etc as we go
Both had their good reasons to be picked and it almost went to Germany, but the slightly weighted coin came down in favour of our marginal preference for this trip, Scotland
More specifically the western isles, formerly Outer Hebrides, although to get there we pass through some spectacular scenes in the Scottish highlands
No real plans, nothing booked, we start from southerly point with a family weekend near Stratford, till Monday, pop over to Mo's place on Monday night , get new rear rubber on Tuesday from P + B Tyres Oswestry
Work gets in the way as it has a habit of and I need to get to a meeting in Malton on Wednesday morning but then we head north properly, hopefully over the border on Wednesday night 29th Aug
Then the only fixed event is picking Mum back up on the 20th September, so home for 19th
We love the western isles and tell everyone as often as is appropriate, sounds like we might even bump into a few funsters over there this trip but the drive there is pretty good as well, we prefer the Uig (Skye) to North Uist or Harris partly price, it is the cheapest way to get there, but also time on board, it is cheapest because it is the shortest route, just under 2 hours, better for Bev and Lola
Once over on the islands we haven't yet decided whether to travel north to south or vice versa, but I really like Harris so will probably end there, or might actually start and end there for the western isles bit
One night up the Findhorn Valley hoping for our spectacular deer sightings which we missed last time due to masses of midges hoping the late August early September will be better, last time was mid August, we really should have known better
Probably will not book the ferries until much closer to the time so we can modify plans if the weather isn't good for sea crossings, will update with stop points, photos, costs etc as we go
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