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End of the Journey (North UK Series 3 of 3)

Posted on October 20, 2020April 11, 2025 by nicole

Now that we’ve completed the North Coast 500 route we started to make our way back home towards London. This post starts from Inverness heading back towards London. Check out our other posts on the journey north to the NC500 and the NC500 route. In the two weeks we took to get back south to…

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Orkney Mainland

Posted on October 20, 2020April 11, 2025 by nicole

While doing the North Coast 500 route we decided to take a side trip to Orkney Mainland. The couple days spent on the island were better than we expected. There is so much to see and do on the island – we really wish we would have planned more days to explore more of the…

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North Coast 500 (North UK Series 2 of 3)

Posted on October 19, 2020April 11, 2025 by nicole

Journey Details | 17 Days | 1243.1 Miles Since we were travelling from the south, and visiting other places on our way north, we started our NC500 journey from the west coast (Isle of Skye to Applecross). At the end of the route we headed southeast from Inverness, so we didn’t get a chance to…

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Journey to the North Coast 500 (North UK Series 1 of 3)

Posted on September 13, 2020April 11, 2025 by nicole

We decided we wanted to do the North Coast 500 route along the north coast of Scotland. Since we were planning to drive all the way north, we thought we would take our time getting there (and back) from London. In the two weeks we took to get to Lochcarron to start the NC500 we…

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15 Day Itinerary in the West Country (UK)

Posted on August 5, 2020April 10, 2025 by nicole

Day 1 – New Forest National Park New Forest National Park. We left home and headed through the New Forest National Park on our way to Beaulieu. The drive through New Forest was beautiful. Very green and ponies everywhere! The ponies would be in the field next to the road, on the shoulder, or sometimes…

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Sleepy Hollow in October

Posted on October 18, 2019April 10, 2025 by nicole

We just spent a couple of days in Sleepy Hollow, New York (Tarrytown). Yes, Sleepy Hollow, as in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. I really wanted to visit the area in October because of The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze, which is displays showing thousands of carved pumpkins! So Blaze was the reason…

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Roadtrip through Nebraska Sandhills

Posted on October 4, 2019April 10, 2025 by nicole

The Nebraska Sandhills Scenic Byway stretches 272 miles from Grand Island, Nebraska to Alliance, Nebraska. We decided to head to Breckenridge, Colorado for a long weekend. Rather than taking the generic route across Nebraska on Interstate 80 we decided to take a scenic route through the Sandhills. The route is only a few hours out…

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