The sunshine from yesterday carried over into today and, from the moment the sun rose, the sky was a brilliant blue with a few high cirrus clouds in view; a very favourable start to the day which saw us out and about earlier than we had planned in order to take advantage of the weather. Our choice of hike today was Peanmeanach - a walking track that starts just a ten minute drive away from Arisaig and ends up at Peanmeanach Village (long abandoned) and Beach. P...

We are now into the third week of the trip and it suddenly it feels like time is galloping away. We have two more nights at Eshaness and then it's off to Glasgow for a couple of days before we leave Scotland behind for the last week of the holiday and venture into England for the first time since 2007. Still feeling quite relaxed this morning - I swear this house is enchanted and doesn't want people to leave! - we finally mustered the energy to head out for a wa...

Sunday. The day got off to a leisurely start as we were in no hurry to go anywhere after the epic drive yesterday and it's very easy to relax here and there's no sense of haste or any need to be anywhere. It's quite a change for us to be content with being inactive but it's no hardship just to sit and look out of the huge windows at the view of Eigg and the boats in the bay. We discovered that Sunday in Arisaig is a quiet affair, in fact we didn't see anyone sur...

Today was a travelling day - and travel we did! In spite of the relatively short distance as the crow flies between Skye and Arisaig we spent almost six-and-a-half hours on the road. We left Sea Loch View at 9.30am having done the customary final day cleaning and, I might add, leaving it cleaner than we found it. Originally we had planned to catch the ferry from Armadale across to Mallaig and then drive onto Arisaig but we already knew that sailings were being a...