Scotland...........

………is breathtakingly beautiful and having a little rustic cottage on the waters edge on the Firth of Solway is a lovely way to spend a few weeks. The weather in the Lake District was the worst EVER……the council recently put in flood measures to cope with ‘once in a 100 year event’ but nature has a way of thumbing her nose at such frippery and threw a once in a 1000 year event!! A month’s rain fell in 24 hours! We got a couple of days when we just had to hunker down and watch the sea raging outside. It’s astonishing what a difference a mile or two of sea can make. The Lake District will have to be visited another time by us. It was a really mellow experience, lazy days, walking over hills and dales, watching the migratory birds settling in for the winter. The land and the people have a sparseness and canniness that is legendary…..e.g at a service station it costs a quid for “free air”…..I believe one had to pay to use the machine! We visited Gretna Green, full of romantic expectation and found it to be disappointingly mediocre. Having said that, throwing back our bedroom curtains each morning and looking at the ever changing vista of sea and sky, took our breath away…….wish you were here xxxxxxxx