There will be more blog posts to come about everything book related, but for now, I had to write about my recent trip up north!
About a week before we left, my best friend, Emma, messaged me on Facebook and asked if I was free the following Monday through to Friday, because she had a surprise for me. After a bit of rearranging, making me completely free, Emma told me she'd booked a little cottage up near Glencoe and Fort William, for us and our friend Collette, as a trip away for my 22nd birthday!
So on the 9th of January, we set off on a very rainy and windy drive up the A82, and despite the bad weather, the views were still incredible.
We passed Glencoe and went and did our food shopping in Fort William, before returning to the Corran Ferry crossing, over to where our cottage was in a small (very small) village called Clovullin. In the pitch black with raging winds and rain, it made for a very stormy crossing, but three minutes passed, and it left us getting a bit lost in the countryside for a bit.
When we got to the cottage, we found the cosiest, warmest place to stay, not to mention a stunning view of the mountains just from standing on the front door step!
On the 11th, we got a bit worried we might be completely snowed in, but we went for a walk along the beach anyway, which was so lovely!
The cottage was so close to the beach you could still see the roof of it over the bushes...
And I have to say it was very strange to be on a beach with snow on the sand, that was a first for me!
While this river behind the beach was really cool, I've never seen that before, it did in fact stop our walk rather abruptly, because the river water came from the loch, which cut the beach in half with knee deep water that we definitely weren't willing to wade through! But then nature chose to interfere further, and a minor blizzard sent us running back to the warmth of the cottage for a cup of tea and some biscuits!
But we didn't have anything to worry about, despite our hasty contingency plans, because when we woke up on the 13th, the majority of the snow was gone, and the roads were considerably better than when we drove up.
We made it back home in one piece, after having a wonderful trip away, I had the best time!
A million thank you's to Collette and Emma, for such a lovely birthday surprise, I enjoyed every minute of it! 💖
Lots of Bookish Love,
Rachel xxx
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