Hitting nostalgia central by buying a Wayfarer dinghy in the next couple of weeks, so sailing it’ll be – west coast, around Mallaig, Arisaig, taking in a pint or 2 at the Old Forge in Inverie (on the mainland, but so remote that roads don’t go there so it’s boat or 2 day walk).
maybe a trip to Orkney to see the chambered cairn on Holm of Papay, an uninhabited island in the north part, sailing from Kirkwall. Some scuba in Scapa Flow perhaps – the block ships are hugely underrated, maybe because of the German fleet. Combine that with a visit to Kearvaig bothy near Durness for some reason
2 weeks in cornwall, a relative rents out their 2nd home in Lelant. 2 minutes walk to the beach down past the church.
There won’t be any room in the car for a bike 😥
Sabbatical 1 sorted out, Motorhome, see dad in Ayr, over to dundee for a mooch, Crail/pittenween for fishing museum and some walking, Aberdeen, ferry, Shetland mooch,fair isle if lucky, Orkney mooch and Hoy, Caithness flow country, duncansby stacks, whaligoe steps, hopefully the crask and altguish inns and the cafe at Lairg ….sod off rain and midges
Road trip with the kids in the campervan across the continent to Morzine via Legoland Denmark. Meet up with Mrs Stoner for a long week, then road trip back to blighty, and to the Green Man Festival then a few days of pre season rugby camp before school.
A few litttle UK ones this year rather than one big foreign one of previous years.
Trip up to the borders for Easter
Week in Ambleside in mid May
Long Weekend on August BH in Hampshire based around the Torq race
Long weekend in Fort Bill for relentless
Last two weeks of July booked off work, planned a weekend in Kent but looking at having a week of that somewhere else, possible in Europe.
A week in South Wales in July and a week with Rivierabike in September (this is the culmination of years of me saying “why the **** do we go on our hols in the height of summer, when it’s nice in Scotland and too hot in Abroad)
And some little ones- race weekends, I want to get up to Pitfichie for the SES, 3 days around Loch Earn in May, probably down to D&G in April and up to Fort William for a few days at some point… If time and money allows it’s a few years since I got into north Wales and there’s so much stuff I want to do there again.
Nothing booked, plenty of ideas but no decision so far.
Options at the moment:
Croatia island hopping
Budapest or Prague city break
Majorca or Ibiza pool holiday
Or if the pound completely collapses, Norfolk Broads.
No idea as yet… waiting to see what comes down from the Sheriff before making any decisions. We were planning Orkney to take the kids home for the first time, but the original plan has fallen through so we are waiting to see what we get time wise with my daughter and will take it from there.
Abroad isn’t going to happen this year I suspect. Kinda hoping perhaps next summer though.
Me and t’missus are going to walk from near ullapool to Poolewe thru fisherfeild wild camping, then canoe up loch marree camping on one of the islands then walk to torridon thru the mountains then onto strathcarron. 100 miles ish of walking, 20 miles ish in the canoe, 2 nights in hotels, 9 nights camped.
St Agnes, Scillies again for us. No bikes no cars. The Island is 1.5 miles by 1 mile.
View from the tent
[url=https://flic.kr/p/put3Kz]cloudss-20[/url] by John Clinch, on Flickr
Me and the lad outside the pub
[url=https://flic.kr/p/q5ATUd]20140803_181259[/url] by John Clinch, on Flickr
Probably go swimming
[url=https://flic.kr/p/pdnrXw]take 2-24[/url] by John Clinch, on Flickr
Teenagers will have a party on the beech. I’ll retire earlier than them. The morning after this was taken niece and son got up 9:00 and shot off with a carrier bag. Apparently a beer bottle had got broken and in the dark they weren’t sure they’d picked up all the glass so they were going for a second check
[url=https://flic.kr/p/puPUKq]wicker-9[/url] by John Clinch, on Flickr
Fly into atlanta early next month then across to augusta for a day at the masters, up to Virginia Beach and a couple of days in Washington then back to friends in atlanta to help them move house.
Beach holiday In Cyprus in September.
I’ll be guiding folks like you through our picturesque countryside full of amazing singletracks here in the Czech Republic. If you still don’t have any plan for this summer, you guys should join! 😉
I’ll be having a week here, it’s actually only about 20 odd miles ATCF from my house, but just a lovely chilled holiday. Good food, great beaches, my favourite beer garden and stunning views.