roemin around

The End !!! Left the Lake district just before 10:00am to return home in one drive after a most enjoyable month away in Scotland.

On Tuesday we had breakfast at a take away van by the Travel Inn, better than the motorway cafe before driving south on the M6 away from Glasgow. We finished the holiday with 3 days at Low Park Wood site in the Lake district. Just chilled out on Wednesday and went to Newby Bridge, Lake Windermere on Thursday our last day away. Windermere was very busy with day trippers and hot. Time to go home!

Part of the trip was to call at Spring Cabs. We stayed at a Travel Inn  for two nights and Rosemary  had an open top bus tour of Glasgow in the rain while I did a bit of work on Admin2000.

We drove to Glasgow with a long detour to see the amazing boat lift which is called the Falkirk wheel.

We took the Brodick ferry back to the mainland at Ardrossan. A nice big one this time with a gentle ramp. Went straight to Largs, which is a big boating centre for yachts sailing the western Isles and bought the new water pump (£25) which I fitted on site later. We had a night at a high site near Skelmorlie overlooking the Isle of Bute ferry.

We decided to have what looked like an idyllic spot for a free wild night on a forestry commission driveway entrance to the Goat Fell forest park. Lovely view over the Firth of Clyde towards Largs and Bute. But then, as dusk fell, out came a huge swarm of midges, like a dark cloud that enveloped the van. The outside cooking was abandoned and we retreated inside and did not emerge until the morning. Now we know what all the fuss is about with Scottish midges! Thought they were just exaggerated tales of wimpy travelers - they are not!

Very warm enjoying the sun bathing, seal spotting and lobster eating for 2 days at a partly refurbished site on the southern tip of the Isle of Arran at Kildonalo. It is now owned by a couple from Grimsby. The husband is an ex deep sea diver and now scuba dives for Lobsters and crabs from his boat in the Mull of Kintyre. Very good at this and gave Rosemary some mackerel to cook and invited us to his BBQ to try some lobster. Gave the left overs to his dog! Unbelievable. The water pump gave out today so I need to replace it. They are like boat water pumps so I can pick one up at Kip Marina in a couple of days.