Another forgotten post that I'm belatedly publishing:
Erica's first trip to Scotland: she got to sample twice a kipping spot that her big brother
Bertie has used a number of times, enjoyed a spot unique to her, and travelled further north than Bertie has ever been in the UK. Whilst she only provided overnight accommodation on three nights of our five
week trip, she was (as always) mightily handy for lots of day trips.
For the records:
Monday 7 August and Friday 8 September – both nights were spent in the same pull-in not far off the M6 near Shap. I don’t recall what the weather was on our way north, but on our way south it was hot (up to 29 degrees whilst driving), with an overnight low of 15 degrees.
Friday 25 August – spent in the pouring rain in a little (3-car) car park near Mount Eagle on the Black Isle. With a trip to Inverness on the Friday afternoon, I figured it made sense to take advantage of being so far north by continuing on another half an hour to do Alness parkrun. Happily, I remembered having seen this parking area when we bagged Mount Eagle a couple of years ago, so we spent a peaceful night (save for the rain drumming on the roof), on our lonesome, just slightly off the beaten track.
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Incidentally, the only reason we didn’t go straight up to Scotland after the Lakeland 100 weekend was because we had tickets for The Hundred cricket on 5 August, hence we travelled south to then travel back north a few days later. In the event, the weather was so wet on 5 August that we decided it wasn’t even worth leaving the house, so sure were we that both matches we were due to watch would be rained off (which they were; not a single ball was bowled). At least we got a full refund on our tickets, and instead I bought a Sky Sports pass for the month, which meant that we got to watch cricket every day for the month long tournament.
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