Our bad weather pattern changed today – it got worse. The wind was piling the waters of Loch Linnhe into cresting waves which broke onto the pebbled shore of the loch. These pictures were taken in the early morning but…

We drove across Rannoch Moor and down through Glen Coe to get here. The rain that began as we drove up beside Loch Lomond had actually stopped but the clouds were what we now know to be their usually solid…

Guillaume’s neighbours to his right on the side of Loch Linnhe are Scots who live in Perth. During a natter with Francine, who at least speaks a little Scottish, occasioned by a shared interest in photographing the conditions on and…

As you can see from this Monday morning picture, the texture from yesterday evening’s moody grey skies had completely disappeared to be replaced by oppressive, featureless low cloud. This is the view from the right front quarter of Guillaume across…

Our next destination is another 200 miles further north at the Caravan Club site at Bunree, near Onich. Our site at Englethwaite Hall has been an interesting stopping off point. Englethwaite-Bunree seems to be a popular combination. As Francine was…

We’d ticked off two of our list of tourist attractions for our first base. For our third and last day here, Francine fancied checking out the Solway Firth west of Carlisle. As a juicy bit of bait for Franco, she…

We are tantalizingly close to the north-eastern edge of the Lake District. In England, for spectacular scenery, the Lake District cannot be beaten, IMHO, not that I’ve seen everything, of course. In search of interesting attractions, Francine spotted an RSPB…

“What have the Romans ever done for us?” Well, apart from maintaining law and order, and developing central heating, starting in AD 122 they built a wall across the almost 80-mile width of northern England to keep out the Barbarian…

North? What are “Franco, Francine and Guillaume doing heading north?”, I hear you ask. Very fair question – after all, we already live about 800kms/500mls too far north. Well, it’s like this. Francine’s niece is getting hitched in September and…