07. October 2018

Built in the 18th century by Thomas Vernon, a lawyer and whig MP for Worcester, Hanbury Hall is a beautiful William and Mary style country house, garden and park.....

24. October 2017

We were amongst the first to arrive that day at the Pen-y-pass car park and we ate bacon butties at the cafe there for breakfast. Outside the wind was strong, rain dribbled from a gun-metal sky and the approaches to the summit of Snowdon were obscured by thick grey waterlogged clouds.

23. October 2017

The gloom of the morning had stayed with us during our drive south to Fort William from the cottage in Drumnadrochit. The sky remained bullet grey from which a steady drizzle descended, the waters of Loch Ness, Loch Oich, Loch Lochy and finally Loch Linnhe looked cold and uninvited, the peaks of the surrounding peaks remained shrouded under a clag of leaden cloud. Of Gaelic origin of the name Ben Nevis (Beinn Nebheis) is a little obscure perhaps meaning venemous hill.....