In the autumn of 2019 we returned to Scotland, to the little holiday cottage on the windswept north west coast. We wanted to see how the changing seasons affected the landscape that we had fallen deeply in love with back in the springtime and timed our trip for when the autumn colours would reach their…
Tag: Coast
Travel Diaries: Scotland Tour – Smoo Cave on the clearest of days
As we set out towards Durness the next morning, the mountains are still cloaked in the smoke of yesterday evening’s heather burnings. Smoo Cave is found just a little east of Durness. It is the clearest of days, yet the breeze over the cliff tops is enough to send our smaller children scattering and we…
Travel Diaries: Norfolk Tour – Watching wild seals at Wells-next-the-Sea
This was our first camping trip of 2017. As we live in the very middle of England, the furthest possible point from the sea in every direction, there is a feeling of sheer joy at seeing sand and waves again. -scroll for video- Our little ones sit on a picnic blanket and dig their toes…