• What we did: Camping around the blustery but beautiful Western Isles of Scotland (Barra, Uist, Harris and Lewis).
• What we learned about travelling with kids: 1) Make sure the tent erects before you leave and 2) have a Plan B for terrible weather.
• Overall rating:
  • Adults: 3
    (+) Wonderful isolated beaches
    (-) Wet weather car camping with wee 'uns is exhausting.
  • Kids: 3.5
    (+) Loved the beaches and the RAF Sea Rescue helicopter drill on our final boat ride
    (-) Did not love the Baltic waters!

Farewell to our ante-natal friends - see you in March!

Could be the Caribbean

Until you dip a toe into the ‘invigorating’ waters...

Top Tip: Check that your camping spot isn’t a cow patch (avoids unexpected late night cow pat encounters when popping out for a pee...)!

Modeled on Hagrid's Hut from Harry Potter, these traditional stone houses seem impervious to the lashing horizontal rain that flies right off the Atlantic.

The east coast of Harris is so rocky and inhospitable that the dead needed to be transported to the other side of the island so they could be buried.

Perfect conditions, however for these seals hauled up on the rocky shore.

The bronze age Calanais stone circle.

Mysterious 5000 year old carvings hewn from 2.9 billion year old Lewisian Gneiss.

After our trip from Stornoway back to the mainland, Maxwell now believes every boat trip should include a sea rescue simulation followed by a jump jet flyby as happened here.

A lifetime of disappointment awaits!

Catching up with Kitty before heading on out into the blue yonder.

Pancakes with pals and pulsing plasmatron installations at the Edinburgh Festival.

Robert, Tricky and Cheist get a mandatory sighting on our travels, enabling them to duck out of more challenging destinations (Sri Lanka, anyone?!).

If you want to see even more photos of our trip around Scotland, check out the Full Scotland Album on our photo album site.