Don’t want to bore you all with things you’ve already heard, explained in great detail again, so I’ll just summarise on some of the things that we’ve been doing Went to the Falkirk wheel (it was alright) but the best bit was the park! Ruth and I had great fun on the slides and random [Continue]
The pedants will point out that there will be one more, but this was our last journey with Brian. We had planned to go into Glasgow on Wednesday, opting to drive to the station in Ayr and then catch a train. Brian started puffing smoke (he never smoked normally except on a cold start or [Continue]
We didn’t have time to upload this before being towed down south, so here it is for you now. Sorry. [Continue]
….must come to an end. Brian has blown his head gasket. We have had a temporary repair attempt at local garage. Holidays here over the weekend so no chance of a proper local fix soon. Starting journey south now, plan to get to Darlington and re-assess. Journey may yet be completed on a recovery truck…. [Continue]
As gales continue to batter the west coast of Scotland, we continue to hide inside. The decision to abandon reliance on Brian and his awning is looking like a sound one. We have just adapted to being inside, and using the site facilities. The caravan has a big living space, which enables us to spread [Continue]
Not literally, don’t worry. After a blustery night in Newburgh (in a nice warm house fortunately) we used the time waiting for Brian’s return from the garage to study every weather forecast on the Internet. Things were not looking good, with heavy rain and gale force winds forecast. Our next planned stop was Ardmair point, [Continue]
While we were in Newburgh Jennifer took us for a walk along the beach next to the Ythan Estuary. The whole estuary was just full of seals, floating in on the tide, and popping up to peer at these curious humans gawping at them. I’ve never seen so many seals, or so close. The coast [Continue]
After Fife we headed up to Newburgh, just outside Aberdeen for the last of our visits, to see Glen and Jennifer. We stopped off for a cuppa at Ali’s in Forfar and discovered a little puddle under Brian when we came out. With my limited mechanical knowledge I wasn’t sure a) what was leaking or [Continue]
Having lived in Fife for two and a half years and worked in Edinburgh, I should know my way out of Edinburgh to the Forth Road Bridge. However changes to road layouts and my poor memory combined to send Brian across Princes Street and heading south. A quick change of plan saw my head for [Continue]
Under specific instructions from Sue B. we stopped at the Scottish Storyelling Centre on the Royal mile while we were in Edinburgh. So, here it is Sue. There wasn’t anything on but we thought maybe we would pop into the cafe. However on taking a look at the prices I was instantly traumatised so we [Continue]
