Scotland was great and the weather was mostly dry. The first port of call was Loch Lomond staying a various lakeside towns and villages. We did plenty of walking and even got the canoe out at Balmaha. Loch Lomond has very clean, fresh water.
Then it was off to Loch Long, a salt water loch which means it's tidal. We stayed on a caravan site right on the shore for a few days. This is where I caught my first fish! Out I went in the canoe with my cheap £18 rod and real and a spinner and spent a few hours relaxing on the loch. I ended up catching 4 mackerel (but I threw them all back). Here is a photo of lock long taken on a walk from the visitor center. You can just see the caravan site in the bottom right corner.
We set off for Glen Coe and Fort William next but found a lovely riverside spot to stay overnight on the way. One of the best things for us about Scotland was being able to take the dog with us (we really did miss her in Europe). Here she is recovering after a hard morning of swimming in the river.
And you just cannot drive through Glen Coe with with stopping to take a photo!
While in Fort William, we got chatting to a very friendly Scottish man who talked us into visiting the Isle of Sky. So off we went. But OMG was it wet and talk about midges! We drove around visiting various villages but eventually we'd had enough of the rain and set off back to the mainland. Don't get me wrong, Skye is beautiful and I'd like to go back some day, but I wouldn't want to live there, not even if I could afford a place like this:
Somewhere I would recommend visiting if travelling round Scotland is Pitlochry. There is a very nice caravan site just on the edge of the town and it really is a lovely place to spend a few days. Plenty of walks and scenery and a nice little town to roam around.
So, what's next? Well, we won't be travelling round in a motorhome again for a while because we have already sold it! But we really are missing Europe and would love to go back so it seems we may have got the travel bug, we just need to figure out how to afford to do it again...
