Category Archives: The Trip

It’s already our last full day, and as mentioned yesterday, we want to spend it exploring Dover. We start with a walk along the White Cliffs of Dover. We park around 9:30 and turn out to be one of the … Continue reading →

Despite sleeping above the pub and Leeds United winning, we slept well. We weren’t bothered by much noise, either from the pub or the main road. We left around 9:15 and first visited a charging station. So far, about eighty … Continue reading →

We enjoy another delicious breakfast and strike up a conversation with the couple sitting in the breakfast room with us. She was born in Belgium, and he’s Scottish, but he speaks better Dutch and Flemish than many Walloons in Belgium. … Continue reading →

Today we have Edinburgh on the agenda, and when we told both taxi drivers in Liverpool that we were also going there, they both independently said, “A beautiful city.” And they were right. We park near Edinburgh Castle and walk … Continue reading →

After a wonderful night’s sleep, we’re back in line for the ferry around 9:15, because although we would have loved to stay longer, the ferry was already booked. We have another uneventful crossing and arrive back on the Scottish mainland … Continue reading →

Today the alarm goes off early, because even though we’re staying a 10-minute drive from the ferry to Islay, we obviously have to be there on time. After a crossing of a good two hours, we drive to the island’s … Continue reading →

We leave the hotel around nine o’clock this morning to drive towards Glasgow. We’d already found a parking garage in the city center and drove there without any problems. Just as we were standing outside, trying to find our way … Continue reading →

From Liverpool, we drive to Manchester in an hour. The plan is a stadium tour at Manchester United, then another Uber to the city center, a walk, and in the late afternoon, a drive towards Glasgow. The tour was a … Continue reading →

We start the day with a stadium tour at 9:45. It’s a bonus if you’re staying a five-minute walk from the stadium. It’s an impressive tour of one of the biggest clubs. We tour the entire stadium, from the stands … Continue reading →

We decided last night to drive to Liverpool today so we’d have two nights there. This way, we could do some laundry and have clean clothes for the second half of the trip. It does mean a long drive, but … Continue reading →