Exploring the Cairngorms with Macdonald Resorts

I think the Cairngorms are my all time favourite place to go on holiday. The landscape is, to massively understate things, beautiful. There is so much choice in terms of walking and outdoor activities that…

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Wild Wild Wester Ross

Wester Ross is probably best known for the Applecross peninsula and Bealach Na Bà road – usually the start or end point for travellers on the North Coast 500, depending which direction they’re travelling in.…

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The Secret South of Snowdonia

This time last year, our trip to Assynt had just been postponed for five months due to the pandemic, and I was having a bit of a ‘holiday sulk’. To cheer myself up I rather…

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Inverlael Forest

During our trip to Assynt in September I got a slow puncture in one of my tyres. This required a trip to the nearest garage in Ullapool (Loch Broom garage, which I highly recommend) and…

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Sron a’ Chlachain

On our way up to Assynt in September we stopped off half way to make the journey a bit more manageable – ten hours in a car with two dogs would be a bit much…

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