We’re back in England. We wanted a stopping place to break our homeward journey and Francine found the Caravan Club site just outside Kendal in the Lake District. [I still can’t call it the Caravan and Motorhome Club, even though…

Reviews of the community run campsite on which we were staying, introduced us to a reportedly very good mainly seafood restaurant in Kirkcudbright with the intriguing name of “Swally n’ Scran”. The restaurant is right beside a wet fish shop…

We’re off to our next 2-night stop at Kirkcudbright. I think I’ll refer to this trip as the Silent Letters Tour. From Moffat, travelling to Fyfe just north of Edinburgh, we visited Culross. The “l” is silent and the “o”…

[The “z” is silent.] Yesterday evening’s lashing rain had cleared and our morning dawned with a clear view across the Firth of Clyde to the Isle of Arran and you-know-where. Today was time for me to brave the grounds of…

[Very Erle Stanley Gardner.] Today we were leaving our Moffat campsite to make the 75-mile trip to Culzean Castle where the Camping and Caravanning Club have a campsite in the park grounds. From the campsite it is but a short…

Our original plan had been to spend four nights at the Moffat campsite, largely to spend a weekend with Francine’s niece and husband. Then she-who-must-be-obeyed decided that, if we could, we should stay for an extra day, basically to giver…

As well as having a photography pal in the vicinity of Moffat, Francine’s niece lives about a 30-minute drive away. This is the main reason we are here and we planned to spend the weekend in their company. On Saturday…

Francine has a friend who lives about a 30-minute drive away from Moffat. She had arranged that they would come down to meet us, then take us to see something local. They duly arrived at 10:30. The something local that…

From our blissful overnight stay at Augill Castle, one which has certainly ruined me for any regular campsites, we continued our way along the A66 to hit the M6 before turning north to Moffat. The journey was a mere 85…

Following Frodo’s service, our initial inclination was to break our journey to Scotland by staying at the UK’s highest pub, the Tan Hill Inn “on a lonely hill high in the Yorkshire Dales” [it says here]. The Tan Hill Inn…