Some pre-Christmas problems with the car had us seriously thinking about upgrading to something newer and more reliable. After looking around the Net a little bit, we started thinking seriously about the Honda CR-V. It's about the right size - still easy to get around on the small roads, but large enough to cart around visitors and luggage. We made the mistake of getting pretty attached to this dream. When we finally got around to going to the dealership yesterday we got the usual ex-pat story that we didn't have a long enough local history to qualify for the lease that we wanted. Since it didn't really make sense to purchase the car outright, we've now settled for the fact that we'll probably be driving the Scenic for another couple of years.
Oh, well, you take the bad with the good, I guess.
We've been scanning the Scotland guide books looking for somewhere to go in the coming months. We've come up with the idea of 'Both Sides of Scotland'. We'll start with a trip down to the Borders. The highlights will be the old abbeys and churches, Rosslyn Chapel, various Sir Walter Scott attractions and some sea-bird sanctuaries on the east coast.
We'll follow this up with a fairly extensive trip up north. We'll drive to Ullapool and then take the ferry to the Isles of Lewis and Harris, where the white sand beaches on the Atlantic coast are supposed to be amazing. We'll then travel back to the mainland and run straight north to Durness to enjoy the least populated area of Europe. The cliffs and moors are going to be the highlight. We'll then travel along the north coast all the way to John O' Groats, and then down the northeast coast, stopping at various castles and points of interest. We're hoping that we can find enough places that allow dogs that we can bring Casey with us.
Even though it is still early days of planning, I'm pretty excited about getting back out and exploring Scotland.
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