Diary

Friday, 26 March, 2004
Time for another new experience, this time the sleeper train. It felt vaguely strange to know that in this instance falling asleep on a late night train is what I wanted to achieve rather than avoid. After a pleasant two hours sitting in the lounge car I
Saturday, 27 March, 2004
Slight rude awakening at 3 in the morning as the train in split into 3 separate trains (mine for Inverness plus one for Fort William and one for Aberdeen) and the jolting of the trains being split and then joined to their engine woke me up, but I soon fel
Sunday, 28 March, 2004
I had already pre-booked myself onto an all-day tour of Loch Ness and the surrounding areas so Sunday was pretty well mapped out for me. After a leisurely breakfast and checking out from the hotel, I wandered down to the Tourist Information Centre to pick
Friday, 02 May, 2014
As it was an early morning flight I’d headed over to the airport the evening beforehand, so at a little after 5am I was checking out of the Premier Inn and heading towards the terminal building at Gatwick…
Saturday, 03 May, 2014
I had to be up early to grab breakfast as I had an early train to catch from the station across the top of Scotland to Kyle of Lochalsh and across to Skye…
Sunday, 04 May, 2014
Another early start to head over to the station, this time to head south to the small town of Aviemore, the self-proclaimed gateway to the Cairngorms…
Monday, 05 May, 2014
As I didn’t have anything planned for the morning, and my train wasn’t until just before 1, I was looking forward to a nice long lie in…