I’m starting to wonder if fairies come from Skye. Having seen the fairy pools yesterday, today we saw the fairy flag and the fairy glen. Maybe it’s because the Isle of Skye is so magically beautiful. Every direction you travel, you see lochs, mountains and sea. The landscape has a jagged beauty that isn’t matched in many places and today more so as we were finally blessed with some snippets of sunshine. It still rained, obviously, but that’s only becaus...

Remember those holidays when you used to get someone else to rub suncream on your back after you’ve pinned the kids down to slather them with factor 50… well this holiday is almost the same, only with Avon so Soft and an extra helping of jungle formula for good measure. Even with the smothering of bug spray, the battle against the midges is real. This morning more so than ever. We free camped in a forest and woke up to the beautiful sight of the sun rising ...