Hi all 👋🏻
Ohhhh the excitement 🤩🤩 I know you all are waiting for the big reveal… 😎
Today is the day ☀️🐝 you will find out where LITTLEBEE4 moved to. ALL THE WAY FROM SOUTHERN SPAIN TO….. ????
NO…. Not yet… not spoiling it, you will have to read and view the photos, basically work a bit for it 😉
(I know you can scroll down hehehe 🤭 and I know some will… but pretend you played along, especially for me 🥰)
I did try to reduce the over 480 photos from that day for you, I just couldn’t get it further under 90 😆LOL
But I PROMISE THEY ARE WORTH LOOKING AT!
Nope, the first photo also won’t tell you anything…
With this post in our lovely #community I will show you our last / SIXTH PART of our long #Journey of moving countries a different way. 😎
We start our last part in DRUMNADROCHIT, in Scotland 🏴
and
❄️❄️☃️☃️ We reached WINTER WONDERLAND in our destination ☃️☃️❄️❄️
Find out how we ended up there….
On 16 January we started traveling by car from the wooden cabin outside of Drumnadrochit… 🚗🚗🚗🚗
Along the way;
Did we jump in a train 🚂 maybe a boat ⛴️ or even a plane ✈️ from here all actually is possible…
Let’s find out soon!
The 91 photographs in this post are all taken with my #iPhone 🤓 16 January 2023 📱and I will follow the time stamps so it looks like you are coming along with me on my last part of our #journey and see what I saw… 😎 all the little #details around me ❄️☃️❄️☃️
Hope you will enjoy the views and my #story 🤓
Some of you already know what I was doing during the last months… since 19 December 2022 actually, if you missed it;
We did move countries, we did it a slightly different way… being homeless for about a month and staying in many holiday locations along our road trip. We didn’t know where we would end up and only in the last minute we got a rental house secured. We rented it unseen… talk about adventures hahaha 🤣
We left Spain 🇪🇸 see this post: ✈️ Our flight out of Spain 🇪🇸 ~ 📦🚛✈️
I made an update in this post: Update, Things are not always going as planned ~ “Market Friday in Stamford UK” 📦🚛✈️
We started our next adventures on 5 January 2023, our journey towards our final destination after we visited the in-laws and friends in England 🏴 for the holidays.
Part 1 of my adventures you find here: PART 1 of 6 ~ “ROAD TRIP NORTH - 305 km” 📦🚛✈️
Part 2 of my adventures you find here:
PART 2 of 6 ~ “ROAD TRIP NORTH - 304 km” Visit to the KELPIES close to Falkirk 📦🚛✈️
Part 3 of my adventures you find here: 🏴 Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven 🏴 - PART 3 of 6 ~ “ROAD TRIP NORTH - 200 more km” 📦🚛✈️
Part 4 of my adventures you find here: Driving through the ❄️ CAIRNGORMS national park 🏴 - PART 4 of 6 ~ “ROAD TRIP NORTH - 120 km further” let’s move countries 📦🚛✈️
Part 5 of my adventures you find here: 🦕 Driving to DRUMNADROCHIT 🏴 - PART 5 of 6 ~ “ROAD TRIP NORTH - 85 km further”
I have counted the DISTANCE we traveled in total:
🚗✈️⛴️🚂🥾 It is about 3190 km/ 1982 Miles …. 🥾🚂⛴️✈️🚗
I know we drove further as we took the back roads… the single track country lanes. All almost off the beaten paths, but I guess this will do nicely as a grand total 😉😎
Don’t you think?
(Our adventures out locally around the stays are not counted in the total distance)
ARE YOU READY? I know I am… so;
Let’s go…. Here is PART 6 of our journey from 16 January 2023 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻
Did you sit down and take a drink…?
A Google map I will put at the end of the post… to not spoil it right away hehehe 🤭 😅
This is how we woke up that early morning… the wooden cabins are surrounded by snow ❄️
It was a few cm and looked soooo beautiful. I had to walk around a bit before we would leave.
View towards the left…
Walking along the path and see the grounds. Do you remember, only 1 other cabin was occupied next to ours.
I walk by this bird feeder. I feel the ground is icy ❄️ underneath the fresh snow. So I will keep that in mind driving off this mountain. 🏔️ The temperatures are freezing 🥶 it’s about -6 degrees Celsius.
The road was twisty and turny, rather steep at places and only a single track. (You remember part 5?)
So as hubby had never driven on snowy or icy roads, going downhill, I crawled behind the steering wheel… 😎
I had driven many times over snow and ice, even in my #Classic #Mini 🚗🌨️❄️ love doing soooo 🤩 my kind of fun actually!
Wake me up for such an adventure anytime 😉
The road wasn’t gritted or a snowplough had been.
At the end of this small road I stopped after I drove down and we switched. As it looked like the main roads are fine and the gritter had been. While doing so a small snowplough / gritter drives by.
The view of the fresh snow is stunning… it is about 10 o’clock in the morning now.
See the road is fine as long as you are cautious 🚗 so we keep going.
Pretty blue sky is showing us the way. Such a stunning sight. The car is still covered with snow.
Capturing frozen parts on a lake.
Of course I will show you some sheep 🐑 along the way… they must have been surprised to by the snow during the night too 🌒🌨️
After a while we reach Inverness, a cute city and the capital of the highlands. It used to be from Scotland 🏴
So our first major road sign… ✈️ airport we go left… 😉
It is also the route into the city Centre 😎
We cross a bridge over the RIVER NESS.
Do you see the suspension bridge we walked over in the distance the other day?
Going past it now, the churches do look pretty in the light today.
We have some food in the city and something to drink. 😊 We don’t take long though.
Our trip continues, we are still in Inverness…
The next road sign shows us: Inverness, Fort William, Ullapool and Wick. And the other side Nairn and Aberdeen.
What direction did we go to?
Can you guess?
Next small sign shows we can go either towards Thurso on the A9 or towards Ullapool on the A835…. 😉
Our next direction takes us over a large bridge at the end of Inverness.
So we say bye bye Inverness, seen from the bridge 😎👋🏻
So far we are still traveling by the car 🚗 as you can notice…
The landscape around us is so pretty, covered with a blanket of snow ⛄️
The next major road sign we see we can choose to go to the A9 towards Thurso and Wick or the A385 to Ullapool and A862 to Dingwall.
What do we choose? Follow along to find out 😎
Passing by little hamlets 😊
Pay attention to the road sign… maybe a hint there 😉😎
Suddenly the snow starts and the flakes ❄️❄️❄️❄️ are really big…
We see the road gets covered rather quickly and the wind is picking up. 😬
Visibility is getting pretty low…
The countryside is fading away slowly… at this time we also hear if the agent of the real estate company will drive to the rental house, as she has a journey too and it could be delayed due to truly bad weather. (The predictions aren’t good let me tell you)
She said; “I’ll give it a go.” So we drive further.
We didn’t know if we could move in the house when we left Drumnadrochit this morning.
It is now 13:00h and we are literally driving on snow and ice again. Hubby wants to try to continue to drive, as the traffic isn’t much on this road… so it is the perfect time to practice. I guide him through what to do and don’t do 😎
Our speed is pretty low as the road is icy and with heavy snow the visibility isn’t great out of the window. We stop a few times in a passing lane or parking to let the locals pass by, THEY ARE USED TO DRIVING ON THESE CONDITIONS 🤓 So we don’t want to be in the way hahaha 🤣
Funnily we see the right lane has been gritted but not the lane we are driving on… 🫣
We are driving at the level from Dingwall now.
I look out of the side window.
And see the most beautiful scenery popping up. 🤩
In the distance a blue stroke of sky is showing through…
It makes the scenery like a FAIRYTALE 🥰☃️☃️☃️
The snow stops.
Are you still with me, discovering our route… seeing what I saw, isn’t it stunning? The scenery 😎 let’s enjoy together a bit more.
The blue sky and the snowy darker mountains are popping out against it.
Yep, I think this is lovely… ESPECIALLY AFTER HAVING LIVED IN SPAIN FOR 7 YEARS. HUBBY DID ALMOST 16 YEARS 🇪🇸 🤓
We see some businesses we pass by.
The roads are pretty empty though…
LOOK AT THIS… just WOW 🤩
Do you know now why I took soooooo many photos on our last journey, in the snow ⛄️ 😇
How could I not capture all of this 🥰❄️
Going over hills and suddenly…
This shows up 🏔️🏔️🏔️ a lake and snowy mountains 🥰
Raw nature… not many villages around here. Just long stretches of quiet roads. 😎
Empty snowy roads.
And the most beautiful white mountains 🏔️
Don’t you think the scenery is beautiful? 😊
A lonely car coming towards us. We haven’t seen many cars on the last roads.
Going through a small town Garve and we see a train station 🚉 and a train crossing 🛤️
Wobble over the track 🛤️
A lovely house along the road. Haven’t seen many that close to the road, most have large grounds and gardens.
Now look at this THE NC500 route. Goes left.
Tiny steep roads. (The most epic route possible🤩 look into it if you don’t know)
The snow doesn’t let us take it today. 😏So we continue on this main road…
You still there? You are doing great, let’s keep going… it will be worth it as it becomes rather #remarkable in the end 😎
Did you see the road turn to snow and ice again?
No gritter to be seen. So we continue again slowly as it is ice underneath the snow.
The trees covered with snow…truly winter wonderland ☃️
Do you see the ice on the road? ❄️🫣😬🥶
Next to us runs a river… the contrast is large with the white.
A sign next to the road does warn us for the possibility of Ice ❄️
The large mountains disappeared and we can’t see that far anymore.
Crossing the black bridge
Just everywhere I look, I see such an amazing scenery…
Nope we are not there yet, still a while to go.
We just quickly pulled into a parking and let the large truck pass by. Even though all of us were not going fast. He would have preferred to pass us and we didn’t like to have the large truck behind us. Especially in these icy conditions.
Hubby is still learning to drive on it. Otherwise this post would have been short hahaha 🤣 with not so many photos. 😎
We see in the distance a large dam. The restaurant before it is closed during the winter months. We haven’t seen anything open on this large road. It doesn’t exist on the A835… let alone villages… we are truly in the middle of nowhere… CROSSING THE HIGHLANDS 😎🚗❄️☃️in truly bad weather conditions.
The dam…
We are catching up with the truck again. But we leave it far in front of us. Steep hills and lots of corners are coming up I see on the map 🗺️
The sky is getting darker and we end up a few times in a blizzard 🌨️ the visibility is zero… 🫣
At a view point I had located we wanted to have stopped at in better weather conditions we rest…
A gritter / snowplough comes by.
Thank you kindly sir 😊👋🏻 too bad he is going in the wrong direction. Hehehe 🤭
None is going the other way…
We continue. The road goes on… we have to hurry up as we don’t want to get stuck on this road…
the right side has now been gritted, the left side we are driving on… nope, it has been a while. 😎 We continue slowly further.
Parts of the Lake next to us is frozen over.
Do you see what I see?
Perfect round circles where the snow melts on the water… ⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️
In the distance we see trees and a very small dam and bridge.
Closer look of it 😊
There you go, it so stands out in the scenery.
More ice… it does look stunning, just driving on it can be tricky. 😎 Hubby is doing fine and I am so proud of him 🥰
Lonely abandoned bothy’s or other buildings in the middle of nowhere.
Did I tell you we are very remote at the moment here?
No other traffic. Just us… and the snow ⛄️
And… again some sheep 🐑 how can I forget about the #sheep along the roads up here in the #highlands.
Keep going… almost there… 😉 now I am proud of you too, if you have read all the way until here 😉🥰
We stopped for a while to eat some sandwiches 🥪 after this drive so far… it’s 14:20h by now. We have trees and a river on our left side. 😎
Passing by natural scenery everywhere we look.
Look at the SKY! 😳 O no… we are heading that way.
No villages in sight yet…
Some tiny hamlets we do pass, with a few houses.
The views of Loch Broom are stunning even now in the winter.
The first larger town we enter.
We are hurrying now as we want to arrive at our destination before the bad weather does, that is in front of us and the dark… it does get dark early here (at that time at 15:25h ish)
And look what happened. We made it. 🎉 Just before the dark… I drove up the mountain again, so no photos of the last parts. No gritter / snowplough had been up that road. I just slowly drove up. A few times the wheels spinned… but all good 😎🤩 I can deal with that. The 4x4 did help 😉
The agent of the real estate company didn’t want to drive up the mountain in these weather conditions, so we met her at the bottom of the mountain. She said… the garage is open, drive in, the keys are inside 😳 and that was it. We never saw anybody to show us around. We rented this house unseen… and boy are we lucky 🍀
The views… at least what you can see at the moment 🤩🥰
The covered balcony in snow ⛄️ it is 15cm of snow when we arrived. 😳
The entrance…
Do you know by now where we ended up?
Let me show you on a map 🗺️
Google map shows we followed this route:
It was about 130km long.
The last track up to the house couldn’t be found, so we drove to where we met the real estate agent. Followed her instructions.
We are living now on the #NC500 route. On the west coast of Scotland 🏴 UK 🇬🇧
THE HIGHLANDS to be precise. 😉🥰
And so far we are loving it. 💜
The scenery is stunning. We are very remote as you know and we will explore many places in the days to come. The nature is raw…
I can’t wait to share my adventures with you all.
DID YOU GUESS IT COULD BE HERE?
I show you the following days soon that followed to this day ☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️☃️
And that’s all for today’s post. Hope you enjoyed reading up and seeing now finally where we ended up.
Until my next Post! 👋🏻😎 are you joining me again soon? On my explorations and adventures out here?
Thank you for looking and reading 😊 🙏🏻
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Have a great Thursday all 😎
Grtz Jackie
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