Been thinking a lot lately about the places I'd like to go to in Scotland that are probably a wee bit too far for me to drive from Ayrshire and back home again on the same day so I decided that the only way I'm going to be able to do this, and make it affordable, was to get myself a wee "easy to put up" tent and just go and do it!

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So, this past weekend, I did exactly that and headed up to Thurso with my car packed with everything and more that you need for a 3 night camping trip.

I won't go into detail about the trauma of getting there and how I just HAD to spend the first night in a hotel - just so that you know, a journey that should've taken me just over 5 hours to get there, ended up taking me 11 hours!

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Anyway, I finally got my tent set up on Saturday morning so I was then ready to hit the road and have camera will travel....

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Thurso and the surrounding area, out as far as Bettyhill on the west and Wick, south east of Thurso, did not disappoint - ticked off one of my bucket list destinations as well that day, then on the way home, I went a 60 mile detour just to be able to visit another place on my bucket list.

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So, here's a wee collection of some of the photos I took over the whole weekend...

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ps. just want to add too, that there were a few things that I didn't manage to get to see, but I would like to go back up there at some point in the future, and go to all those other places.

 

Onwards and forwards!!