The journey home

We decided to stay in Milarrochy Bay for one night so we had an extra day for the journey home. We were somewhat anxious for we needed to pass by London during the weekend and were expecting a lot of traffic. So we decided to make an extra stop in England. The first stop was Halt Whistle, near Hadrian's Wall. We visited the wall before we arrived at the camping site.




At Haltwhistle we could walk directly from the camp site at the shore of the river Tyne. Nearby was the South Tyne trail which is part of the National Cycle Network, we could walk there also.

The next night we stayed at a camping site in Teversal North of Nottingham. The Silverhill Wood Country Park is opposite the site and has eight miles of walks, perfect for a stop over with dogs. We walked a couple of walks and one of them took us on the top of a hill with some astonishing views of the area. We must remember this place for future holidays. The only bad thing was the weather because it started raining. And this is how our vacation pictures could have looked if it had rained during the whole vacation.


And last but not least before entering the Channel train we stopped at the beach of Folkestone to walk the dogs and to eat some dinner.


Then we entered the train and traveled to France again to continue the drive via Belgium to the Netherlands where we live. End of a very nice holiday.

Milarrochy Bay

The last stop in Scotland was in Milarrochy Bay on the East shore of Loch Lomond the biggest lake of the UK. Again beautiful weather and we had a lovely spot on the shore of the lake.


The West Highland Way passes the site. This is a 153 km long walk from Milngavie to Fort William. We only walked a couple of kilometers and back to the camping site.



We came across a couple of Highland cow and made some picture with our highland boys.



On the camping site we got unexpected visitors (swan and ducks).

Glencoe

After spending three nights on Skye we went Southwards again, the first camping site on the Scottish mainland would be at Glencoe.
We passed Eilean Donan Castle, a castle used for the James Bond movie, the world is not enough. It is said to be the most photographed castle, so to keep this record we took some pictures also.


Later there we stopped at a loch we drove by, Rob took both dogs downstairs to the loch, I didn't follow because I was afraid that we could not get back and indeed on the way back, Rob and me together needed to help the dogs to climb up the steep rocks.


We continued our trip and stopped in Fort William to do some shopping before we went on for our final goal Glencoe.
We passed the Ben Nevis, the biggest mountain of the UK.

Arriving at Glencoe it seemed to be a fantastic environment.


There were many beautiful walks nearby the camping site.



Near the camping site a small waterfall was located that the dogs used to swim in.



Rob tried to go in as well but experienced the water being extremely cold, so he was out of the water very quick.
And again beautiful weather. Time to relax as well of course because the vacation will be over soon.

Isle of Skye

At the 9th of May we arrived at Skye. Here is a view of the bridge that connects the island with the mainland.

The first camping site on Skye was in the Trotternish mountains. It was a cloudy day on Skye.

There was a beautiful walk to the beach which we walked after drinking some coffee. We didn't see any sheep so we let the dogs run free. But when we passed over a hill we spotted some sheep and lambs so we hooked up the boys and continued to walk further down to the beach.






On the beach the boys had some fun with some frisbees.





The next morning the famous mist was coming from the sea, after all Skye is called the island of the mist.


Driving on a small but sceneric road toward Dunvegan. It was a single track road so we had to stop a lot to let others pass. We passed a crofters village and did see a lot of sheep.





We arrived in Dunvegan and we found the camping site there next to Loch Dunvegan. The site manager had a border collie himself and he knew the bearded collie. He told that the beardie is the best dog for the rough hill work. He loved the light eyes of Brego and when he spotted their long hair he asked why they weren't shaved after all shepherds using beardies shaved the dogs at the same time that the sheep got shaved. We laughed and said that we use a brush instead of a shaver.




We visited Dunvegan Castle, the last time we were here we took a boat trip towards the seals that live nearby the castle but with the dogs that is not possible.




The next day we walked the 2-church walk and this was lovely with on top of the hill a fantastic view on Dunvegan Castle and the bay it is located at.