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Homeward Bound

Monday 3rd June
The start of the long drive back home. We made a brief stop to view the Queen Mother’s home, the Castle of Mey, followed by another short stop at John O’Groats. We went to see the croft where John’s niece and family used to live before moving to Wales.
​Heading south the scenery was especially spectacular as we drove through the Cairngorm National Park.

We stopped overnight in Bankfoot at the “Taste of Perthshire”, a Britstop site.
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Tuesday 4th June
We continued our journey southwards making just one stop to view the incredible, ornate chapel at Rosslyn, just outside Edinburgh. The chapel was built in the late 15th century and is known for its intricate interior stone carvings as well as its exterior of pinnacles, gargoyles and flying buttresses. We just gasped when we entered the chapel – every piece of stone is elaborately carved – each piece has a story to tell and luckily for us, information boards told us the background to each carving – intrigue a plenty as the chapel is said to have crusade connections. As some of the carvings depict plants not grown in Scotland at that time, the assumption is that the founder’s grandfather, Prince Henry of Orkney, must at some stage in his adventures seen crops such as maize, growing in America. Intriguingly, this was at least a century before Columbus landed there! The chapel may also have been linked to the Knight’s Templar.
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On leaving Rosslyn our journey south took us through the Scottish border country and then across the Cheviot Hills of northern England before joining the A1 at Newcastle. We stopped for the night at the Woodman Inn, a Britstop in Burneston near Bedale.
 
Wednesday 5th June
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    • Introductions
    • Contact
  • Our Adventures
  • Touring the World in your motorhome
  • Our First Trip
    • Iceland >
      • Baltic Cruise
      • Faroe Islands
  • Moselle Valley
    • North America >
      • Route 66
      • National Parks >
        • Alaska & Yukon
      • West Coast
      • Alaska Highway
      • Dempster Highway
      • Canadian Rockies
      • Great Lakes & St Lawrence River
      • Quebec
      • New Brunswick & PEI
      • Nova Scotia
  • Christmas Markets
  • God's Own Country
    • Three Peaks of Yorkshire
    • Greece and Turkey >
      • Turkey
      • France and the Pyrenees
    • Romantische Straße
    • Scafell Pike
    • Great Plains
  • Syria & Jordan
  • From the Tropic of Cancer to the Arctic Circle
    • Morocco and Western Sahara
    • Gibralter, Portugal & Spain
    • Denmark, Norway, Finland and Svalbard
  • Sue wants some more Photo Albums!
  • Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily
  • Southern Africa
    • South Africa
    • Namibia
    • Botswana
    • Zambia
    • Tanzania
    • Kenya
    • Malawi
    • Mozambique
    • Zimbabwe
    • Swaziland
    • Lesotho
  • Ireland at Last!
    • Game of Thrones
    • Belfast
  • Balkans Revisited
  • America 2016
    • New England
    • Eastern Seaboard
    • Florida and the Deep South
    • Music Cities USA
    • North to Canada
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
    • Return to Nova Scotia
  • Ypres Salient
  • On the Road Again
    • Heading East
    • Heading back West
    • Romantische Straße
    • Deutsche Märchenstraße
    • Homeward Bound
  • Nicolle meets her twin sister!
  • Down Under
    • Western Australia
    • Northern Territory
    • Queensland
    • New South Wales
    • Canberra
    • Victoria
    • Tasmania
    • Great Ocean Road
    • South Australia
    • Return to Wetern Australia
  • New Zealand
    • South Island
  • Highlands & Islands
    • Outer Hebrides
    • Harris and Lewis
    • Skye
    • Scotland 500
    • Orkney
    • Homeward Bound
  • Germany 2020 - A Trip down Memory Lane
  • North to Northumberland – and a little beyond!
  • Theft of Nicolle
  • Nouvelle Nicolle
  • South Wales 2022
  • North Wales and Northern England
  • France and Germany 2022
  • Nicolle meets Hamish
  • West Country 2023
  • Brittany and Normandy
  • Cromer and Sheringham 2024
  • Belgium and Germany 2024
  • Germany and Denmark 2024
  • Farewell to Nouvelle Nicolle
  • Our New Motorhome
  • Sandringham December 2024