Moving to the countryside.

Since I last wrote a blog post lots of things have happened. That’s often the way, isn’t it – lots of just plodding along with not much going on, and then a heady mix of chaos and stress to liven things up again! We have had to say a few goodbyes of late – to

Time

And just like that – one quarter of the year…gone. I never cease to be amazed at how quickly time flies; even if you’re not having fun. Listening to Planet Rock (as I often do during my work day) this week and Pink Floyd’s ‘Time’ came on. It’s my favourite song off a fantastic album

Walking the West Highland Way – Part 2; Milngavie to Sallochy Bay

In my previous post I introduced the beginning of my first walk of the West Highland Way back in 2018. Namely, my lack of getting any training in before the walk, and the fact that on the morning of the walk I realised that my rucksack weighed in at 20kg! Here is my recollection of

Adventures in Scotland – The West Highland Way Part 1

Preamble A while back I posted about what led me to walk The West Highland Way for the first time back in 2018. I have since walked the route on two further occasions – 2019 and 2020. The West Highland Way is a walking trail of just under 100 miles, that starts in Milngavie, a

Beginning our van conversion process

First of all, I should point out that this blog will never be a ‘how to build a xyz into your van conversion’ sort of thing; that has been done to death already. YouTube has millions of videos of people demonstrating how they convert a van into a campervan. Not all necessarily done well or

Hiking in Scotland – why the West Highland Way

I first started thinking about the West Highland Way on a bitterly cold, snowy morning at the car park of Ben Lawers in February 2018. I had driven almost 300 miles in my little car up to the Southern Highlands for a weekend away with a friend of mine. I had booked us onto a

2020: Plans, Vans and Ideas Part 1

2020 so far has been….well….we were all there weren’t we? Like so many others, we had plans for this year that have had to be…{is it optimistic of me to use the word?} paused… I think for the first time in my life, I started the new year with some semblance of a ‘plan’. We