Scalpay and the Isle of Harris

Eilean Glas Lighthouse on Scalpay

South to Scalpay I was really enjoying road tripping around the north of the Western Isles on Lewis. Great people, incredible locations and breathtaking landscapes. Now I wanted to begin heading south. From the more undulating, boggy, peaty moorland of Lewis, down to the island of Scalpay. This would take me through the very different … Read more

auf wiedersehen Deutschland… bonjour France

the stunning forms and facade of Le Corbusier’s masterpiece of Architecture, La Ronchamp Chapel

Das ist gut Germany Relaxed and refreshed after a day of ‘La Dolce Far Niente’ (Italian for the ‘sweetness of doing nothing’) in Wanderparkplatz Roßbergwiesen, it was time to push on through the Black Forest region of south-west Germany and head into France. When in France… Crossing over into France in this instance, meant crossing the Rhine river. For once this was a … Read more

get ready, this is not a test, this is real

some pretty funky clouds by the sea today

UK weather testing After all the hard work of getting the new rubbers fitted, there is only one real way of finding out if all the effort was worth it or not? Fortunately, this is England… and it’s winter, so it didn’t really take that long before the new rubbers were put to a real-world … Read more