Laggan Point Walk

With the weather dry, sunny but bitterly cold when in the wind, we took our first chance of 2018 to walk round to Laggan Point.  This is one of our favourite walks near where we now live in Bowmore.  It was pretty wet underfoot, but nonetheless a fab morning out. Pretty sure we'll camp/bivvy somewhere …

G.C. Ristorante Debbie’s Ladies Ride

Sunday is club ride day, however having not really ridden my bike over the winter I'm anything but bike fit.  Luckily (for me) Helen isn't feeling particularly bike fit at the moment either, sooo with the sun splitting the sky we decided to have a "ladies ride" out to Debbie's in Bruichladdich to meet up …

12 Months of Dates

2018 is the year we celebrate our 20th Wedding Anniversary, so we decided at the beginning of January that we would have a "date" each month in a "date your spouse" sorta thing.  Since moving to Islay 4 years ago we do actually spend quite a lot of time together walking, cycling, just being, BUT …

New Year, New Bike

My birthday is straight after New Year, which is a pretty crap time of year for a birthday. Generally everyone has festive season burn out by then.  However, this year Joe has surpassed himself in the present department! A brand new shiny bicycle arrived a few days after my birthday (entirely expected when you live …

Gartbreck and Geeses

My second walk of today, mainly because the weather was just too good not to go out and enjoy it.  Another walk close to the house, this time going down to Gartbreck.  Where there are always lots of geese at this time of year (well the whole island is jam packed full of geese at …

Bowmore Battery Walk

Woke up to sunshine this morning.  Joe was night shift so I decided to get out the house, give him peace to sleep and lap up some much needed vitamin D.  I decided on a short but lovely walk from our house - the battery loop in Bowmore. Dug out my Buffalo shirt that I …

Laggan Loop

Today my eldest daughter, Megan came out walking with me.  We decided on a 13km route near where we live.  This was also to be a wee test run for us walking Part 1 of the Kintyre Way together. It was a fairly murky day weather wise, so no stunning views out over Loch Indaal …

#30daysofbiking 2017

This year I fancied a wee crack at the #30daysofbiking - basically riding your bike every day during the month of April.  There's no set distance you must cover each day, just get on your bike! With both my kids birthdays in April and two weeks of school holidays in the month, plus the still …

Carraig Fhada & Singing Sands Walk

Beaut of a walk to Kilnaughton Bay, Carraig Fhada lighthouse and then onto the Singing Sands in Port Ellen this morning. On days like today, I genuinely can't believe we are lucky enough to live in such a wonderfully beautiful place.  We could have been almost anywhere in the World.  Paradise 🙂 ~   All …

Ballivicar Farm

Today we went up to Ballivicar Farm to have a look at the horses.  Erin is doing her school Endeavour Project on horses and had arranged to meet the owner of the farm for a chat. As is often the way when we plan to do something outdoorsy, it was raining on and off 😦 …