Highland Hospitality – the contrasts This past week it hasn’t felt like being in the Highlands at all. The sun has shone and there has been warmth in its rays, out of the breeze. The birds are singing, daffodils are bursting into joyous colour, and there’s a feeling of hope in the air. Spring weather… Read more »
Posts Tagged: North Coast 500
Celebrating our first Vanniversary.
While the world and their partners were getting loved up and soppy last weekend, Mr Marr and I had celebrations of our own to get busy with. We didn’t ditch St Valentine completely – cards were, after all, exchanged – but far more exciting was that last weekend was our first ‘Vanniversary’ – a whole… Read more »
Big Interview: Mark Beaumont
The May issue of HIAL’s Connect has just hit the airport shelves… which means that if you missed your copy, you missed my ‘Big Interview’ with ‘Around-the-world-in-80-days’ cyclist Mark Beaumont. Here it is for perusal at your leisure. Don’t say I’m not good to you! From a home-schooled ‘Swallows and Amazon’ childhood on a smallholding… Read more »
Life on the open road. And making the most of tomorrows.
A new function has mysteriously appeared on my phone which tells me how much screen time I have been using. It tells me how many times a day I pick the thing up and breaks down for me how many times I check Facebook or Twitter. And I am horrified. I am too embarrassed to… Read more »
Clever, clever NC500, and Pokemon GONE!
What’s not to love about NC500? At the time of writing (and I fully expect this record to be broken again soon) the fastest time for cycling all 518 scenic but hilly miles of the NC500 route is 29 hours. That record was set by cyclist James McCallum in June, who pedalled almost non-stop round… Read more »
North Coast 500 – genius. And Mum’s a spy!
It’s really is the most fabulous idea, the creation of The North Coast 500, a 500 mile driving route clockwise around the top of Scotland, starting and ending in Inverness. In fact it’s such a brilliant idea that I can’t imagine why we didn’t think of it before. The route, already dubbed ‘Scotland’s answer to… Read more »