A Holiday Up North Pt 1.
My family, or more specifically my Dad, thought it was a great idea for me to "get away and relax" during the final weeks before my finals. He decided to book a family holiday to the North West highlands of Scotland, hidden away between the Munros he booked a cottage between the dates of 3rd April -10th April. I thought I could make something out of this, so what follows is my attempt at travel blogging. There will be extracts from a trip journal and the occassional song suggestion to try to add depth to the words. 3rd April Get onto the M6, travel north. Go past Preston, go past Lancaster, keep going through Carlisle, cross the border at Gretna Green, the road changes but keep going towards Glasgow. It is so easy to get to Glasgow, to get just the smallest, tantalising taste of Scotland. But this is all (or almost all) I knew of Scotland, "the Land of my Birth". We came off the motorway and just kept travelling through the gargantuan mountains. They were so vast th...