The Torridon area of the Western Highlands is situated on the west coast of Scotland, in Wester Ross. The area is well known to climbers, photographers, wildlife enthusiasts, hikers, and countless visitors from around the world, for what is considered to be some of the finest scenery in Europe. The mountains are very nearly the highest in Britain, rising in places almost vertically to 3500 feet from the deep sea lochs. We spent last night at the Torridon Youth Ho...

Last night, we landed in Inverness without incident and spent the night in a simple but clean hostel. Barry managed to get us half price for the night, since they'd charged us full price for the previous night's booking that we missed, and we felt much more Scottish bartering our way out of yet another out-of-pocket expense. Before we left, many people told us that we'd be missing our beds after six months. Maybe, but not yet. We've never seen any beds look a...

Upon arriving at Gatwick, we bought new tickets to Inverness, as FlyBE also would not honour our original tickets. When we asked if there was a note on our file (there wasn't), we were again told that there was nothing that could be done at their desk - we needed to contact the Customer Services desk in Exeter, England. Needless to say, the new tickets were SIGNIFICANTLY more expensive. Having gotten our tickets and having been assured we would make a 1440 hour ...

The first leg of our revised trip began the morning of July 3rd. We flew by WestJet to Hamilton, Ontario, arriving at 15:15 hours, and immediately checked in at the FlyGlobeSpan desk. When we were told that they had no record of us being on that evening's flight, Barry (almost) fainted, but they found our booking soon after, and we were told that we were confirmed for the flight at 23:00 hours. Funny… our email confirmation said 23:59 hours… We finally boarde...

Best Laid Plans...Never has that been more the case than the start of this adventure. Military time is a funny thing. After our airline (FlyGlobeSpan) changed times on us twice in the weeks before our flight, we slowly developed the idea that we were leaving at 10:50 p.m. instead of 20:50 military time (which is 8:50 p.m.). Imagine our dismay when we arrived at Calgary Airport at 8:50 p.m., only to discover that the flight was closed and there was no one from t...