Scotland Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/scotland/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Sat, 19 Aug 2017 09:02:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Scotland Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/scotland/ 32 32 2696646 Great Cumbrae Trip Day 6 – An Adventure Getting Home https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/great-cumbrae-trip-day-6-adventure-getting-home/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/great-cumbrae-trip-day-6-adventure-getting-home/#comments Sat, 19 Aug 2017 09:02:47 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=25061 We had planned to start heading home on the Sunday and have a leisurely drive back stopping off somewhere en route. Our previous days trip to Largs would have been the beginning of this journey. However, as Ramsey our Campervan was poorly we had left him on the island so as not to drive him...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/great-cumbrae-trip-day-6-adventure-getting-home/feed/ 1 25061 Great Cumbrae Trip Day 5 – Day trip to Largs https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/great-cumbrae-trip-day-4-day-trip-largs/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/great-cumbrae-trip-day-4-day-trip-largs/#comments Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:21:59 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=25046 Day four of our trip to Great Cumbrae and with the kayak race completed it was time to chill. I was up early as usual and ready for a nother circumnavigation of the island. Yesterday I had circumnavigated it by surf-ski and bike. Today I was going to do it on foot with an early...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/great-cumbrae-trip-day-4-day-trip-largs/feed/ 1 25046 Great Cumbrae Trip Day 2 – Onto Great Cumbrae https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/great-cumbrae-trip-day-2-onto-great-cumbrae/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/great-cumbrae-trip-day-2-onto-great-cumbrae/#respond Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:57:08 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=25003 Our second full day of our trip started in Glentrool with absolutely pouring rain. The plan was to mountain bike early though before the others were awake so I got up, put on some waterproofs and headed out into the pre-dawn light. It was certainly wet and the weight of the rain had dropped bracken,...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/great-cumbrae-trip-day-2-onto-great-cumbrae/feed/ 0 25003 Great Cumbrae Trip Day 1 – Penrith and Ae Forest https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/great-cumbrae-trip-day-1-penrith-ae-forest/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/great-cumbrae-trip-day-1-penrith-ae-forest/#comments Wed, 16 Aug 2017 11:50:58 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=24989 Not the best of starts Our family holiday to Scotland on board Ramsey our VW Campervan was finally here. The camper was loaded with all that we should need, clothes, food, games and plenty of toys and equipment and we were ready to go. Our destination was the island of Great Cumbrae just of the...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/great-cumbrae-trip-day-1-penrith-ae-forest/feed/ 1 24989 Dumfries, Galloway and Great Cumbrae – Quite an Adventure https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/dumfries-galloway-great-cumbrae-quite-adventure/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/dumfries-galloway-great-cumbrae-quite-adventure/#respond Tue, 15 Aug 2017 11:50:11 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=24985 Well, that was quite an adventure! We were bound for the island of Great Cumbrae just off Largs on the North Ayrshire coast of Scotland. I was due to take part in a kayak race around Great Cumbrae so we planned a trip in the campervan. The idea was to take our time heading up, maybe...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2017/08/dumfries-galloway-great-cumbrae-quite-adventure/feed/ 0 24985 Loch Lomond Holiday 2015 – Day 4 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-4/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-4/#respond Sat, 29 Aug 2015 04:29:39 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20095 Not much of a holiday day today really, as it was the last day in Scotland. Rain overnight meant that the tent was wet when we came to pack it up after breakfast and then it was time to load the car and start our journey south. We weren’t heading all the way home as...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-4/feed/ 0 20095 Loch Lomond 2015 – Day 3 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-3/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-3/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:22:22 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20089 After a night of pouring rain and no sleep I got up early and had a coffee and breakfast under our new awning. I had planned to take an early morning walk up Ben Lomond but seeing as the weather had been so terrible overnight and I didn’t have all of my proper walking gear...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-3/feed/ 3 20089 Loch Lomond 2015 – Day 2 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-2/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-2/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2015 05:37:53 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20084 Inchcailloch After our little stroll into Balmaha yesterday, we had decided that we wanted to take a boat trip out to the island and Nature Reserve of Inchcailloch. It’s only a couple of hundred yards off shore from Balmaha and I was going to swim out to it, but decided against that as I would...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-2/feed/ 1 20084 Loch Lomond 2015 – Day 1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-1/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-1/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:00:59 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20080 Our summer of long weekends continued last weekend with a trip to Scotland, camping on the shores of Loch Lomond. The primary objective of the trip was for Morgan to visit his friend Cameron who moved up here earlier in the year, but we obviously wanted to enjoy the scenery too. The Drive Up –...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/08/loch-lomond-2015-day-1/feed/ 4 20080 Islay – The Journey Home https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2007/04/islay-the-journey-home/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2007/04/islay-the-journey-home/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:05:37 +0000 http://alananna.co.uk/blog/2007/islay-the-journey-home/ We headed off from the cottage at around 7am and dropped Pat off at the airport before boarding the ferry to Kennacraig… We were of course early at both the airport and the ferry terminal so had to wait around a little, but once back on the mainland we put our driving heads on and...

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