Blog Number Three

BLOG NUMBER THREE

I had been hoping to write this blog a few days ago, but unfortunately family commitments and projects took priority! So I am sitting in my hotel room outside Carlisle writing this now.

The blog is about my trip to the North West of Scotland. Until COVID-19 happened I tried to visit the Highlands every year. For the past two years this hasn’t been possible so I am really excited to be finally on my way!

The purpose of my trip is to immerse myself in some photography and hopefully make some good images.

My plans are to stay four nights at the Kilchoan House Hotel (https://kilchoanhotel.co.uk) on the Ardnamurchan peninsular that sticks out just above the Isle of Mull. Ardnamurchan Point is the most westerly point of mainland UK and has rocky cliffs, lovely beaches, woods and a lighthouse.

I will then move to Badachero near Gairloch staying at an Airbnb called Skye View Studio also for four nights. This apartment is situated in a distillery-bliss!

I will then travel home via my cousin who lives in Largs.

I am staying near Carlisle to break my journey to Scotland. I will also add blogs describing my time and, hopefully, providing some insight into the various areas and photographic challenges.

Those readers who live in England will be fully aware of the issues of fuel scarcity. I was luck on Tuesday to obtain a tank full of petrol in Basingstoke and that has been sufficient to get me to Carlisle where I was able to refuel at a Tesco garage near my hotel. I have to say that the further north I travelled the less problems there seemed to be in finding fuel.

The journey itself was fairly easy apart from the fact that the main route north to Scotland, the M6, was close northbound due to a serious accident, so I had a very nice tour through Shropshire and Cheshire before rejoining the M6 just south of the Thelwall Viaduct.

The weather was mixed most dry but with torrential rain through the Lake District. I hope this is not an omen.

I will close now and update my blog on a regular basis over the next two weeks.