Starting south along the Great Glen

Montreuil sur Mer

Some of the best village ramparts in France

A corner of the Carnac Standing Stones

The Alignnements de Carnac stretch for several kilometers and contain thousands of standing stones of all sizes

Maiden Castle, Dorset

Excellent wild camp in car park directly below this impressive iron age hill fort

Marvao Castle

Marvao is stunning. It floats a thousand feet above the surrounding countryside with views in all directions

Glencaple Pier near Dumfries

Another amazing stopover on a pier on the River Nith below Dumfries

Crossing the Dart on the Kingsweir Ferry

Approaching Dartmouth on the Kingsweir Ferry.

Bidford Riverside Carpark

What an amazing place to spend a couple of nights. Hats off to Torridge DC for doing this.

Lossiemouth looking east

We sat in Bertie and scoffed our fish and chips with this view across the mouth of the River Lossie towards Buckie and Ben Rhynnie

Cullen and Seatown

Looking back to Cullen from the viaduct with Seatown in the foreground

Wildcamping at New Aberdour Beach

An amazing wild camping location on the Banffshire Coast. Walks, beach, birds, caves what more could you want?

The Alpuharras

View from the Miradour over a small town in the Alpuharras near Almeria.

Winter sunset from Cabo de Gata

There is a glorious carpark beside the little village of Cabo de Gata where you can park right beside the beach. The sunsets are stunning

Great little aire in the heart of Burgundy

The lovely little aire was in a tiny village in the heart of Burgundy

Tomphubil Car Park

A lovely spot at the top of the hill between the Tay Valley and the Tummel Valley.

Ricote - the oldest town in Murcia

There is a large aire on the edge of this little town. The town dates back to C9 and is well worth a visit.

Driving the Great Glen with Ben Nevis in the distance

We left Forres a bit later than planned as it always take us longer to get going than planned! The forecast is disappointing alothough it was fine as we left and headed east on the A96 toward Inverness. That was after a last top up of the food cupboards at Lidl in Forres! At Inverness we topped up with diesel as we did not know when we would see cheap diesel again. The idea is to follow the Great Glen all the way to the West Coast and then down toward Oban. Sadly it rained most of that journey and thus photos are few and far between. The A82 along Loch Ness was busy and rather poor surface too. We saw lots of other campers and motorhomes so got in lots of waving!

Stopped for lunch in a layby over looking Loch Lochy – a lovely view rather spoiled by the traffic whizzing past us.

Our castle of the day was Dunstaffnage which was built to control the entry to Loch Etive and thus the major route to the interior that it formed. An interesting castle and worth the visit. It is now wooded all around and thus you do not really appreciate the way that it controls the whole area.

A glorious and peaceful location on Loch Etive.

Our sleeping place tonight was Tayniult Pier on Lock Etive – our first wild camping site! I found it on http://www.wildcamping.co.uk/ which is well worth its modest subscription for. Taynuilt Pier used to be used by a ferry across Loch Etive but that has clearly not run for a long time. Now it is used by the supply boat used by the salmon fisheries out in the loch. The car park did have several signs to say no overnight parking but according to the other motorhome there when we arrived the locals did not care and he had been there for a few days. Several more motorhomes arrived later and there were 5 of us there in the end! What a magical spot and I am converted to wild camping if it means you can spent the night in such glorious locations and free too!

Our morning view when we woke up on Taynuilt Pier

Odometer reading leaving Forres: 116661
Odomoter reading at Taynuilt Pier: 116897

Kilometres today: 236kms
Kilomters from Forres: 236kms
Kilometres this trip: 1875kms

24th night on Bertie

Starting south along the Great Glen

Tagged on: Historic Scotland WildCamping