Scotland by Carawagon
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 11:52 pm
Last week Alex (my girlfriend) and I spent 6/7 days in Scotland in the Carawagon - its first 'long' trip since rebuild. It is still not finished, and we are still getting used to using it properly (and making notes for our own modifications for our use!) but it was a great trip indeed. Weather made a change to our plans, with ferries being cancelled due to poor weather so we had to do the planned 'loop' in reverse. We made it onto Mull and onto the Ardnamurchan peninsula to visit the most westerly point of the British mainland, with the best of the weather falling when we were on Mull and driving down its west coast - some stunning scenery I do not remember fully appreciating last time I was there aged about 7 or 8!!
We covered around 13-1400 miles and with me keeping notes on fuel useage etc I can very happily say we were averaging around 19mpg from a rather heavily laden 2.6l Carawagon! The engine seems to be bedding in nicely.
We returned south on the friday just gone, calling at my house very briefly to collect some spares to take to Leafers at the Pit for others, and headed over the border to Yorkshire to spend the weekend there and catch up with friends. I was very surprised (but pleased!) to receive 'best in show' for the Carawagon, something which I am very proud of.
I will share a few pics with you all, which are a little fuzzy as I over-compressed them when uploading to the internet!
I hope not to bombard with too many photos! I'm taking photos of it as if it is a first-born...
Best campsite I have ever stayed at!!
We must have pitched some 5 foot from the most beautiful bay
Ferry back to Oban!
A slight break in the weather on the way back down south... coming over Shap on the M6 was interesting!
We covered around 13-1400 miles and with me keeping notes on fuel useage etc I can very happily say we were averaging around 19mpg from a rather heavily laden 2.6l Carawagon! The engine seems to be bedding in nicely.
We returned south on the friday just gone, calling at my house very briefly to collect some spares to take to Leafers at the Pit for others, and headed over the border to Yorkshire to spend the weekend there and catch up with friends. I was very surprised (but pleased!) to receive 'best in show' for the Carawagon, something which I am very proud of.
I will share a few pics with you all, which are a little fuzzy as I over-compressed them when uploading to the internet!
I hope not to bombard with too many photos! I'm taking photos of it as if it is a first-born...
Best campsite I have ever stayed at!!
We must have pitched some 5 foot from the most beautiful bay
Ferry back to Oban!
A slight break in the weather on the way back down south... coming over Shap on the M6 was interesting!