Happy Birthday Blog and Islay – Her name is Girl Carmen

Happy Birthday dear Blog…3 years old today and ooh ooh ooh – I’ve just seen that it’s my 50th post too! Wow and hello September!  I’m more than a little unfashionably late in publishing some of my summer adventures.  In fact my blog has been positively neglected recently.  Well adventures abated (for a few weeks […]

Islay Revisited!

It probably doesn’t come as a surprise to many of you….but I LOVE being on the road…travelling, often solo…just me and my camera.  Last weekend I took another short hop and a skip back over to Islay to spend some time with friends Lorna and Karl before the hosteling season comes to an end.  I […]

The ever changing skies of Islay

Islay…where does a girl start…possibly somewhere between a whisky tour (it has to be Bruichladdich given my love of their astounding gin – The Botanist!) and a pint of prawns & scones down by the harbour in my favourite village of Portnahaven! So last week was my 2nd ever visit to this little piece of […]