We started the day visiting Sligo town which has very picturesque streets - some on the river. I found more evidence of the Insomnia...

Slieve League are the highest cliffs in Ireland - so we had to do the Pilgrims Walk to the top. The weather was not very helpful as it...

We had a short drive to Burtonport which is the ferry port for the Irish Aranmore Isles. It also has an old railway track walk around...

Ireland has the equivalent of the Scottish North Coast 500 called the Wild Atlantic Coast - with lots of info on things to see and do. So...

It's a good day when you start drinking whisky in the morning at no less distillery than Bushmills. We did have to do the tour first...

We started with the first time slot available to do the Carrick- a-Rede or the rope bridge that featured in Games of Thrones. The weather...

We left Belfast travelling up one of the glens near Antrim and- for Martin - one of the towns had an interesting name. We stopped at...

Boring camping life: we first got our clothes washing done between the camping site washing machine and a new style washing system at a...

We started the day with a walk on the mountain overlooking Belfast that had some Bronze Age dwellings and artefacts. Unfortunately it was...

We had a good night at Ballantrae as the storm disappeared and left a sunny evening. This is a new council Motorhome aire that is still...

Since we were near Alloway where Robert Burns was born and lived, we had to go and check our several locations. Walking from the museum...

So we didn't have to backtrack and to reduce the driving , we took 2 ferries to get across to near Glasgow. The first was Tarbert to...

A bit of a rainy day - but we checked out quite a few things. First we started in Arduaine Garden - another huge garden started in 1897...

After a rainy start and getting Gus fully supplied we headed off for lunch with my sister in law Anne's family - Mum and Dad Teresa and...

We headed off from Forfar to the very posh Gleneagles Hotel in the middle of Scotland to do an off-road driving course with Richard Scott...

On our way from Edinburgh to Forfar we stopped off at Tealing to check out 2 very old structures. The first is a dovecot from 1595 that...

We visited Aileen and Mark in Edinburgh for a couple of nights and had a lovely catch up. Aileen and I met at Edinburgh university in the...

We had another great visit to Callum Campbell in Nairn - and his wonderful garden. Here are Callum and Glenn checking on the progress of...

We arrived early at RSPB Loch Strathbeg after escaping from the cows and met another early birdwatcher. He told us about the rare cranes...

After a couple of days in Forfar where Gus got his air con looked at - we have headed off on a short few days trip on the north...