On The Road Again (day8)

25Sep09

Well it’s our last day in Benderloch so we pushed the the boat out and ventured approximately one hundred metres from our cottage and back onto the beach to take in the view and remarkably fresh air (which you’re kind of force fed regardless of whether you want it or not). It’s been a great […]

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Tags: Benderloch, Home, Scotland, West Of Scotland

Number Fifty Two

24Sep09

On the journey up here to Benderloch we had planned to stop off just outside Glasgow to obtain provisions before disappearing into unchartered territory. So after crossing what I assume was the Clyde we decided to continue through to Dumbarton. Unremarkable indeed – other than after crossing the bridge I noticed the above (unfortunately it […]

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Tags: Benderloch, Bruce Martin, Clyde, Dumbarton, Google Street Map, K8, Telephone Box, Twentieth Century Society

Thrills, Spills But No Bellyaches (day5)

23Sep09

Well the weather broke in the night replacing the relentless rain with showers timed every three minutes or so – they say that you can have a week’s worth of weather in a single day out here on the West of the Scotland – ‘they’ are wrong it’s more like a fortnights. Anyway given the […]

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Tags: Benderloch, Cruachan, McCraig's Tower, Oban, Rain

Made In Scotland (From Girders) (day3)

21Sep09

A whole day free of the internal combustion engine and one improved immeasurably by the arrival of an Irn Bru Ice Cream Float from the Cafe Ben Lora in Benderloch.

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Tags: Benderloch, Cafe Ben Lora, Irn Bru

A Long And Winding Road (day2)

21Sep09

Starting the day in Carlisle we decided to investigate further before returning to life on the road. So I ended up at Tullies House Museum & Art Gallery (via the Cathedral and a quick recce of the Castle) to see the ‘Bathing Beauties – Re-imagining the Beach Hut for the 21st Century’exhibition, although to be […]

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Tags: Anderby Creek, Bathing Beauties, Beach Hut, Benderloch, Carlisle, Cloud Appreciation Society, Cloud Bar, Isle Of Mull, Mablethorpe, Tullies House, Tullies House Museum & Art Gallery