Highland Adventure – August 2013 Day 2
Scotland is beautiful, even in the rain it has majestic scenery. No I’m, not being biased, I’m quoting from fellow tourists we met on our Highland Adventure en-route to Ullapool. Susan, my partner,...
View ArticleHighland Adventure – August 2013 Day 1
When a friend alerted me that she was willing to hire out her holiday caravan I spoke to my fellow Intrepids, Susan and Sid, with a view to hiring said caravan for a week. The caravan is based in...
View Article2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,500 times in 2013. If it...
View ArticleRoyal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh May 2013
With the temperature at -2.5 centigrade and being confined to the house at present I once again look back at the trips and outings undertaken in Spring and Summer 2013. At time of typing I have taken...
View ArticleRiver Cruise – Elbe – May 2013
As I looked out of my living-room window into the dark enshrouded garden, listening to the wind blowing through the trees, my mind turned back to the Viking River Cruise trip Susan and I took down the...
View ArticleCairnGorm Mountain – April 2013
As we approach the onset of winter and the curtailment of days out with The Intrepids and camera it can only mean time to catch up on the Blogs and on the pictures taken during the Spring/Summer. I was...
View ArticleAt The Feeder – Update
My last blog on 21st July 2013 related the surprise visit or ambush by a Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), it was an unsuccessful ambush. Since then I lost my Nikon D700 due to stupidity (mine). Whilst...
View Article2013 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo – 17 August 2013
We had set off from North Kessock at 07:00 to make our way home, well to my home in Livingston. If you have not read our Highland Adventure see the previous blogs to this. Having just had 5 hours...
View ArticleHighland Adventure – August 2013 Day 6
06:00 on a nice sunny dawn on Friday 16 August 2013 saw us up bright and early. This was the final day of our Highland adventure. This was the day I would tick off my bucket list, three places, Dunnet...
View ArticleHighland Adventure – August 2013 Day 5
Today we planned to take it easy especially after our long day of adventure on the Isle of Lewis. A late start to the day saw us having our breakfast at 09:00 and then a long chat with our friend Val...
View ArticleHighland Adventure – August 2013 Day 4
Crack of Dawn, Wednesday 14th August saw Susan and I get ready for our unplanned but much anticipated trip to the Western Isles, namely Isle of Lewis. The idea of the trip came about on our previous...
View ArticleHighland Adventure – August 2013 Day 3
After the long trip on Monday we would have a gentle drive and head along the Moray Firth to Spey Bay and the WDC Scottish Dolphin Centre in the hopes of sighting the famous Moray Firth Dolphins. Alas...
View ArticleHighland Adventure – August 2013 Day 2
Scotland is beautiful, even in the rain it has majestic scenery. No I’m, not being biased, I’m quoting from fellow tourists we met on our Highland Adventure en-route to Ullapool. Susan, my partner,...
View ArticleHighland Adventure – August 2013 Day 1
When a friend alerted me that she was willing to hire out her holiday caravan I spoke to my fellow Intrepids, Susan and Sid, with a view to hiring said caravan for a week. The caravan is based in...
View ArticleHighland Day Trip – Hairy Coo 2
Last May (2012) a few like minded souls who shared a similar interest arranged to share a bus trip run by Hairy Coo bus tours. We took the standard tour which covered the Central Lowland/Highland...
View ArticleAt the Feeder 21-07-2013
Chez Walter’s Feeder stations underwent a complete remodelling and refurbishment. A normal service was kept up which the starlings, robin, chaffinch appreciated. The new facilities have been well...
View ArticleA Garden’s Tale (Continued)
On the 3rd of July we left the refurbishment, remodelling of the garden as shown on the image to the left. At that time we were awaiting the erection of a bike storage shed, repainting of the drying...
View ArticleA Gardens Tale
Gardens, I love visiting gardens, but I’m no gardener. My late dad loved his garden and his roses as did my mum. M>e? As I said I love visiting them, but no way do I like doing gardening When my dad...
View ArticleStarlings Discover Water Feature
Well the shocking news here is that Scotland has had blue skies and sunshine for 5 consecutive days- so it looks as if we will have a record summer this year providing the blue skies and sunshine...
View ArticleMarch Catch Up Part 2
Its June 7th and I’m still playing catch up I got as far a the beginning of March in last blog, and looking at my photos I realise that March was a busy month for The Intrepids, Susan and me. It was...
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