Standing Stones Hotel
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To the top of mainland Scotland
... for overnight accommodation and refurbishing the old hotel and building new chalets. There are some lovely island which you can visit on day tours, these tours take up most of the day and require an overnight stop at John O'Groats ,so it makes sense to build a few chalets. Had a lovely long chat to the lady and her son, so much information they provided for us. Good to stand there and find out what the ...
Busy week roaming
... York, Castle Howard, Scarborough in the rain, Durham, Hadrians wall, Edinburgh , military tattoo was awesome, into highlands and Aviemore, up mountains in the Cairngorms. Joc has managed to fit in lots of shopping. May not have wifi access for 2-3 nights I ...
Good morning day 1
Weather is looking good so far but can change quickly when we hit the big climbs of the day. We aim to have breakfast at 7. Gordon our host for the night is cooking a big fry up. And aim to be on the road for 8. Traveling west to tongue then south to binary bridge 106 miles. From jogle ...
Returning to Westray
... ferry from Kirkwall to Westray being met at Rapness pier by Catherine and briefly meeting Mabel and Sinclair Bain with one of their children and partner who's names escape me at this stage but I'm sure Moyra will remind me of.
We then travelled up to Pierowall and the barn hostel at Chalmesquoy where we checked in and got sorted before heading to Jock and Myrtles at Santair? for our first meal on Westray. It was great to catch up with them both and share news as well as ...
The gathering discovers caithness
... hotel, this was another good evening with plenty of food and then some hilarious dancing as a large number of us got totally lost in the dance steps but loads of fun anyway, this resulted in a late night as we had to travell back to Thurso after this arriving after midnight.
On Thursday 26th we had a slow start but headed off to view some ruins of castles that have been associated with the clan, specifically Castle Sinclair and ...