Friday 10th July 2020 to Thursday 16th July 2020
A sombre start to the week with my neighbour Ian’s funeral but then if was off to Walsall for Julie’s mum’s 90th birthday celebrations.
M25 at Heathrow 6:30pm om a Friday! No wonder Boris is worried about the economy.
Parked up at Walsall Cfor soon made himself at home
With all the social distancing rules Barbra’s 90th birthday party was a picnic in the garden.
Julie did the catering
and it was very nice too but a bit of a disaster for the environment
Everyone brought a cake!
Picnic over we headed to St Annes.
St Annes has some beautiful Marram covered dunes
Julie on the beach at St Annes with the Blackpool skyline in the far distance
After a Sunday at my Auntie Tricia’s in Stalmine we hit the road to Morecambe.
Fancy having a town named after you
You cant get more Northern than ferrets on the beach!
It was miserable weather Monday morning as we headed to the Lakes.
Hillcroft Park In Pooley Bridge is a fabulous campsite, well looked after with good size level pitches
and with a toilet & shower block second to none
Pooley bridge is a great place to stop-off on the way to Scotland but truth be told there’s not a lot to do there so we had a trip on the Ullswater steamer to Glenridding for lunch.
With the social distancing rules we were assigned seats on the bow and the wind made it a bloody freezing trip
There’s not a lot to do in Glenridding either
Cfor liked Hillcroft Park, he loved all the feral stuff going on in this hedge
Wednesday it was all aboard for Scotland!
Julie has never been before
It was an uneventful journey apart from the stretch of the A82 along the shore of Loch Lomond where the road is only just wide enough for Nelly and lorries to cross paths. Nelly being a left hand drive Julie had the best view of the close encounters of a HGV kind 😀 her nerves were jangling by the time we arrived in Glen Nevis.
On a sunny day Loch Lomond must be fabulous
Ben Nevis from our pitch at Glen Nevis campsite
I’m not walking up Ben Nevis in the rain, that’d be an utterly miserable experience. The weather forecast for this part of Scotland changes from hour to hour. Supposedly next Tuesday will be dry with sunny intervals and a light breeze. I’ll have to twiddle my thumbs till then.