United Kingdom – Rattle's Ramblings

Beat6

Last month, Linsey and I went to Bearsden to visit Six By Nico’s social enterprise restaurant Beat 6. The restaurant provides a 4 course meal, with optional starters and a cheese course, and 100% of the profits get donated to the Beatson Cancer Charity.

Life Update

So it took some sweet ass time for me to write the post about Wales with Pete and there was a gap between that and the one before that. Have been a bit busy with life, so this is a wee update of what I’ve been up to.

Wandering Around (North) Wales

Disclaimer – I have definitely procrastinated in writing this, bit of life getting in the way and my own lack of drive, so it isn’t in the exact order of everything we did, but I’ve included all the stuff we loved!

Back in June my lovely friend Pete asked me if I would join him on his family holiday to North Wales as part of his PA team.

Aikenhead House – The Cottage

After last year’s lockdown birthday I wanted to something this year for my 31st. I decided to stick with Scotland, still wanting to explore, but most importantly, wanting somewhere with a hot tub.

Christmas in Northern Ireland

I didn’t want to spend Christmas alone, nor did I want to spend it at home. The state of the world meant that going overseas for a European Christmas would be that much harder with the varying rules for different countries, but I still wanted to go ‘abroad’.

Enter Northern Ireland.

A Long Weekend in London

A long, long time ago – pre-Corona, my friend Lizzy and I decided to book Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for her 30th birthday celebration.

The Outer Hebrides

In August I went on a 3 week solo road trip around the Outer Hebrides.

I love reading about other people’s travels but I find that a lot of people don’t include price lists – and when you’re working to a budget you want to know what the cost of things are!

I’ve tried to compile a comprehensive list of what I spent my money on, but I’m sure I forgot about the odd pack of crisps or something!

Outer Hebrides trip – Accommodation

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Outer Hebrides trip – Food

Get comfy for a long read because all I’ve really done on this trip is eat at different (and sometimes the same) places! If you’re more interesting in lunch bites or takeaway, scroll on down to near the end.

Campervanning in the Scottish Highlands

My lovely Kiwi friend Georgia has decked out her house on wheels and at the start of May we took Gordita for a spin up in the Scottish Highlands. We had a rough plan of a few things we wanted to see (Skye being the main destination) but other than that, we were winging it.