Monday 9 June - Glengarry Castle Hotel & Broadford Travel day! And rainy day so a perfect travel day. We left Inverness at about 10am and drove alongside Loch Ness stopping at a little pull in viewing point. The breeze was chilly but it was a lovely view across the Loch. We drove down to Drumnadrochit at the Loch Ness Visitor Centre and explored the gift shop but not the centre as they charged for entry. Continuing on we followed along Loch Ness, wound our...

Sunday 8 June - Ord Hill and Loch Lundie What a glorious day it's going to be today … the sun is shining, and it's predicted to be this way until late afternoon. Last night we decided to plan a longer walk today. We found on my AllTrails app a circuit that started at Ord Hill carpark, starts on the Ord Hill circuit then diverts across to a loop around Loch Lundie, tracks back and completes the circuit of Ord Hill including up to the top of Ord Hill and th...

Saturday 7 June - Craig Dunain This morning we hopped in the car and took a ten minute drive to Craig Dunain. We easily found the parking area near the duck pond and headed off on the circular walk. The tall trees sheltered us from the sprinkling of rain as we began our upward climb, but as the path took us into the firebreak between the trees I decided to pause a moment and put on my rain-shell. (Many thank you to Kerry for loaning me her rain-shell). A quick l...

Friday 6 June - Glasgow to Inverness The day starts early in summer in London, it was light by 4:30am and that's pretty much when I woke, only managing to doze a little. I got up at 5:45am and had a quick shower, then repacked my suitcase (now a little lighter). Crispin was super generous and dropped me at Gatwick airport on his way to work, which saved me 15 minutes of walking, a three-minute train ride to the airport and a 20 minute transfer bus from the stat...

Thursday 5 June It was so lovely to have a quiet relaxed day and the drizzly grey weather in London made it that much easier to enjoy. I started the day slowly and pottered around for a bit before setting myself up with my laptop on a stool at the high kitchen table. I set about updating the class lists for dog club with intermittent chats with Kelly between her work meetings - she had many today. Later in the morning we wondered up to Sainsbury's in the drizz...