2023 Scotland/England Adventure (Final!)

Cutty Sark, Greenwich.

The Meridian Line at the Royal Conservatory, Greenwich

View from the Conservatory to 

The Queen's House Museum, Greenwich.

On the Wednesday we stayed in Leighton Buzzard 

as I was expecting a very special visitor. 

Christine from Patchwork Allsorts made the trip 

from down South of London especially to see us. 

 

Christine and I have been blogging friends 

for many years and it was so lovely to meet her in person. 

It's not often to you to meet a blogging friend 

from the other side of the world!

We had a fabulous time and all too soon 

it was time for Christine to head home.

Buckingham Palace.

"Big Ben", Palace of Westminster.

Westminster Abbey.

Westminster Abbey.

Westminster Abbey.

Westminster Abbey.

Horse Guard, Palace of Whitehall.

Trafalgar Square.

Dinner at The Grove Lock pub, Leighton Buzzard.

Andrea's son Oliver joined us for our last dinner.

The Grove Lock pub, Leighton Buzzard.

All too soon our fabulous adventure came to an end.

We were away for two months and spent six weeks 

in Scotland and one week in England touring around 

in our motorhome. The last week staying with Andrea. 

 

The whole trip was done ad hoc, other than the first three 

days in Edinburgh and going on the Jacobite Train

 (you have to book that months ahead), just deciding that 

day (sometimes the day prior) where we would head. 

By doing this, we were never locked into anything. 

If we spent four hours somewhere instead of the two 

we planned it didn't matter. We didn't then have to just drive 

to get to any caravan park we had booked. 

 

The caravan parks in Scotland are fabulous. We would just 

turn up and if we couldn't get in, we would just go somewhere else. 

Sometimes we stayed on farms that were set up for vans. In Sterling we 

actually parked our van in the Park and Go bus station (all legal)! 

As we were fully self-contained, we could stop anywhere.

We travelled thousands of kilometres (couldn't find the 

note I made of the final tally). Visited many castles and palaces,

both ruins and living museums. Not forgetting the cathedrals, chapels 

and churches. Spent many hours exploring museums 

and beautiful gardens. We also met lots of lovely people.

 

The photos are only a snapshot of the many places we visited. 

Of course we couldn't show you everywhere we went. 

We follow the Facebook group "Scotland Travel Tips" 

where we found out lots of places we didn't know about. 

People would often post that they had just returned from Scotland 

and were already missing it. Now we understand 

what they were saying. We just loved it there and 

would travel back to Scotland in a flash!

I hope you've enjoyed my (many) posts. It's been lovely 

revisiting while looking at all the photos again.

Hector's first sight of Melbourne!