Adventures with baby - the first 6 months
So here we are, 6 months in - from sleepless nights in the tent to three in the bed of a tiny Bongo camper van, from al fresco feeding under
Go wild in the Outer Hebrides
16 days, 12 islands, 11 ferries, 4 month old baby, 1 bongo... We're just back from a trip in the camper van to the Outer Hebrides. We took the ferry from Mallaig, over to Castleboisdale with Calmac. Calmac do a bunch of very reasonably priced hopscotch ferry trips to allow you to do a circuit of the Outer Hebrides (and lots of other Scottish islands). We took the bongo on Hopscotch 30 for about £240, so that we only had to drive as far as Mallaig on the Scottish mainland. It'
Watching the storm
Having spent most of the Spring so far in Iceland and the Outer Hebrides, I've spent a lot of time watching storms brew up on the horizon, sometimes blowing on past, other times hailing us in the face. I love it - I've always found stormy skies totally captivating. Blue skies just don't do it for me in the same way. A moody sky captures my imagination, and I just have to photograph it, even though the photos often don't look like much, and certainly don't do justice to the dr
Wild camping with a bump in the Outer Hebrides
Planning our first wild camping trip while pregnant, I was nervous to say the least. I was only just getting through the early days of nausea and exhaustion. Normal life was taking it out of me, how on earth was I going to live in an unknown field for the next two weeks!? With a promise from Aaron that we could check into a hotel for the two weeks if need be, we packed up the car with camping gear and food supplies, and caught an early morning ferry to Scotland. After a long
