Finding space to BREATHE
Motorhome
Roller Team Zefiro 675
Duration
Five days
When
October 2019
Why?
Peace and quiet, gorgeous scenery and acres of space for the children to run around in
Sitting on the balcony of the Loch Morlich Boathouse Café with my wife Sarah, the faint shriek of kids enjoying themselves rising from the sands below, I could feel the stress of the day - heck, the month - draining out through my shoes. I hugged a coffee and idly flicked a pastry crumb off the wooden bar we were leaning against. Traffic congestion, what traffic congestion?
A quick glance around revealed a glass-calm loch spreading between us and the glorious autumn colours of the Cairngorms in the near distance. I sank further into my bench with another exhaled breath. Yes, I am already struggling to recall the Chuckle Brothers-style packing bedlam of only that morning.
Staff quietly gathered the hire boats below, bumping them gently together along the shore while framed by the setting sun over the water. I had a moment of pure clarity as I took another long draft of coffee. This. Is. Glorious.
Peace and quiet
It was almost a shock after the inevitably noisy hustle of starting a trip, rather like an astronaut suddenly released into weightlessness after an
