Today we're leaving mainland Scotland and heading for the Isle of Skye but first we're going in the opposite direction and taking a side-trip to Invermoriston (an old and familiar stamping ground of ours) and checking out a few sightseeing locations on the way, before eventually making for the Kyle of Lochalsh and the gateway to Skye.After a wonderful vegetarian version of the full Scottish breakfast (minus only the Linda McCartney sausages) at Spean Lodge it was...

Friday the 13th! Not an auspiscious day for travelling, and what should we see running in front of us as we departed The Jute Store? A black cat. Was this to be a sign of good luck or dire consequences for the day? The plan was to make our way at a leisurely pace to Spean Bridge with a detour to Glencoe Wood beforehand to see if we could locate Alex's Highland Titles plot which entitles her to be officially known as Laird (or Lady). The irony of this plan was t...

It's hard to believe that it's our last full day in Blairgowrie at The Jute Store. Tomorrow we'll be packing up and heading for an overnight stay in Spean Bridge on our way to Uig on the Isle of Skye for a week. Today started gloomy and overcast but the weather forecast promised a fine day until 4pm when the rain would close in for a wet evening. We started later than usual and gave the sky a chance to brighten up a little and by 10.30am we were on our way, just...

With rain forecast for the morning we headed out with the idea of visiting the Loch of the Lowes visitors centre via a walking trail from the village of Dunkeld but as we drove out towards our intended destination the prospect of hiking in the wet and cold was not especially attractive and we made a quick adjustment to our plans. We instead drove to the Loch of the Lowes and spent a while there checking out the information on the ospreys for which the loch is fa...

It's hard to believe that this is only our fourth day in Scotland. We seem to have been here much longer than that, and not because time is dragging but because we seem to have seen so much already. Today we thought it would be a good opportunity to visit the Cairngorm reindeer herd, especially as the weather around Blairgowrie was going to be a bit wetter than it has been so far and going further afield seemed a better prospect. So, under grey skies with the un...