Leaving Skye behind was pretty sad, it had really been everything we’d hoped it would’ve been: incredible natural beauty everywhere you looked, but we had to start our long drive back to Glasgow. But we weren’t done yet, we had … Continue reading
Category Archives: Europe
Road Tripping Scotland: Isle of Skye
Our first stop on the trip was Talisker whisky distillery, so, as we were close by, we took the Mallaig-Armadale ferry to avoid a lengthy drive. It was nice to skip 100 miles and get to the distillery early. Or … Continue reading
Road Tripping Scotland: Loch Lomond to Castle Tioram
From St. Andrews we drove over to Loch Lomond where we were staying in a remote cabin on the water, in Rowardennan. It poured during the drive, a lot of it down windy single track roads, but cleared up in … Continue reading
Road Tripping Scotland: St Andrews
What do you do after passing your driving test (for the second time)? Road Trip!!! And with family in Scotland we decided on visiting them near St Andrews and making our way up to the Isle of Skye via the … Continue reading
Faro Family Fun
Going away on a multi family multi child trip… here’s something new. I remember these holidays as a kid and loved them, but don’t really remember how my parents were. Now that getting a night out with friends is a … Continue reading
Sunny Sani Beach, Greece
With number two arriving in August, so being on UK lockdown during the summer, we looked to sneak is come late summer sun at a kid friendly place that we could take the expanded family to. If you google these … Continue reading
Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast (mostly)
Leaving Lake Bled in Slovenia we drove south-west (about 3 hours) to the coast to the historic town of Rovinj, in Croatia. There are a lot of beautiful smaller, lesser known coastal towns in the north of Croatia that are … Continue reading
Lake Bled & Ljubljana, Slovenia
Last year we finally got round to exploring Croatia, where the secret seems to be well and truly out, but during our research Slovenia kept getting mentioned. After doing some digging we decided it looked worth an extra week and … Continue reading
Lake Como Wedding
Don’t you love it when friends organise weddings in places you’ve always wanted to go – what a perfect excuse for a holiday – so when we got a save the date for July in Lake Como we were pumped … Continue reading
An Amsterdam city break for grown ups
Read that title as “Amsterdam for people with kids who can’t go out in the evening anymore, but still want to go to fun places on bank holiday weekends”. High on the to-do list, with beautiful architecture and scenery, plus … Continue reading