Me and My Polar Bear » Scotland

Scotland in September.

emily — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:08:37 +0000

Hello!

Somehow or other another 2 months have managed to pass without me posting anything at all. Sorry. I haven’t really achieved much or gone anywhere beautiful in that time either, so instead I thought I’d put up some of our photos from our trip to Scotland. We stayed in a beautiful cottage with its own private beach near Oban and although it rained (a lot), it was absolutely stunning.

We did plenty of walking, cooking, and lounging around – it was pretty much perfect, although a few extra hours of sunshine would have been welcome. One day we might actually go on a holiday somewhere warm….

Hope you’ve managed to enjoy the sunshine today – we’ve spent the day by the Thames eating and drinking. Apple and rhubarb crumble should be mandatory on a Sunday.

Puck’s Glen

emily — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:55:53 +0000

Wednesday was pretty horrible. Rain, rain and more rain – so we spent pretty much the entire day inside reading. And eating biscuits.

But then Thursday came and after driving about 10 miles west (via a c.50 mile trip round the lochs), we arrived at the fairytale land that is Puck’s Glen. It was like something out of a film. Truly truly truly beautiful. And I’m a sucker for trees.

*WARNING – PHOTO OVERLOAD*

The Cobbler. A Non-outfit post. Yup.

emily — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:36:03 +0000

I’m back! Along with about a gazillion photos that Tom has kindly taken and processed for me. Isn’t he good?!

I’ve started back at college this week to get underway the learning for my last exams ever ever ever (I know I’ve already said that many times over the past few years. But really. This is it.). So I’ll try and spread the photos out so I can re-live times when I didn’t have to study. Ha.

So we were staying at The Lodge on Loch Lomond, which well and truly lived up to its name. The view from our room was stunning and the bathroom came complete with a sauna. Never been a major sauna person – I am now totally converted.

Anyway, the train up to Glasgow was far from dreadful. The roads in Glasgow were another matter (not helped by the fact that I hadn’t driven at all for about 9 months…), but that’s a story for another day.

After we spent Monday evening arguing over what walk to do the next day, we eventually decided upon climbing The Cobbler. Only apparently we took a somewhat harder way up than would probably have been sensible. You live and learn. I’ll be sticking to the path next time. On the plus side – we made it! And there are lots of photos…… although we can safely say this isn’t an outfit post. Waterproofs, leggings and walking boots – Mmmmmm.

p.s. The photos are all bigger on Flickr stream.