Ferries from Saint Malo and Cherbourg to Portsmouth: Brittany Ferries, P&O European Ferries

In principle England began with the overnight accommodation in a marvelous youth hostel - an old Manor House in Portsmouth.
Loved it that much that I tried 'em again and again. With the result that I stayed the majority of my nights in Great Britain in youth hostels!
The english / welsh / scottish youth hostels are a class for itself! Absolute top class! No matter where, no matter which one! (as far as I visited them)

Kept on travelling through beautiful old english towns and villages like Winchester or Avebury. Unbelievable how much flair a town can have!
Only the eternal on and starting from the roads gnaws something at the mood. Does one have to absolutely build it over the highest point of a hill and afterwards by the deepest hollow to only lead in order it at the next hill again across the all-highest point?
But apart from such little things it was a mad travel.

With the change inside after

became from the hills mountains. Which is appropriate for me already rather. There the travel is worthwhile itself uphill at least and with mad prospects is recompenced.
Equal to beginning e.g. - for the distance from Kington to Penybont - I drew a green zigzag line in into my card - Character of an extraordinarily beautiful distance.

Wanted to drive in the further process to Aberystwyth - as a railway fan one may not be able to be escaped the there steam locomotive distance actually - decided me however nevertheless differently and continued to drive to Machynlleth.
Here the same question arises. Does the Talyllyn "Railway in " Tywyn visit or not? But surely! Only that I wanted to look at myself beforehand still another little the area. Drove therefore first times up to Dolgellau and came over the coastal road again down to Tywyn.
The following course travel was unique!

Steam train in Tywyn: Talyllyn Railway Steam train Aberystwyth - Devil's Bridge: Vale of Rheidol Railway

Few days later I came to Snowdonia, a mountain massif high over thousand meters. In the diary the following is located:

Steam train Porthmadog - Blaenau Ffestiniog: Ffestiniog Railway

But thus not enough: a further large attraction of Wales are its innumerable castles!
Castell y Bere, Harlech Castle, Criccieth Castle, Dolwyddelan Castle, Caernarfon Castle, Beaumaris Castle, Conwy Castle,. to call. around only few.

The best way around Wales to describe is probably that thought, which shoots me with the Zurueckdenken by the heading:

Hardly again in England it went through Liverpool.
Which I cities anything to gain cannot have let be reminiscent I already several times; But I must add Liverpool have its attraction. It cannot say necessarily that I was inspired lightup, but certain a something seems the city to have.
To stop me for several days there, but it was not enough nevertheless in the long run then however. Nevertheless rather drove on. Finally one can smell here already almost Scotland.

Still another / experiences two nights with mad sunsets in England and came I to Greenhead.. and Hadrian's barrier - the famous earth barrier in England's the north.

At the beginning an easy restriction. Scotland is not surely a beautiful target, a doubt. Like every other country also, then however also Scotland has its (small) not so beautiful pages. In my case I felt the nevertheless quite frequent fences as such. By it I came myself the-more frequent literally as locked out by the grandiosen landscape forwards
But thus enough - is also only my subjective feeling.

Otherwise one cannot describe unbelievably beautiful and fascinating country differently as Scotland than!

In Greenhead I attached Stephan and Jeoff, two further wheel-learn myself (many, many greetings!! , and schmiss my own planning over the heaps. It became a beautiful travel! On the last section before Melrose (I drove there a parallel route) I even the luck had been able to watch a fischreiher for one while fishing!
It in the eye angles in the brook had seen being located and wanted it gladly to observe without it directly to verscheuchen. The opportunity in addition offered large shrubs. Hardly behind it disappeared and mouse-quietly hold back a vollbremsung. I was recompenced with my first fishing heron in Britannien!

The following southern elbow by Dumfries and Galloway was worthwhile itself shows surely alone already above picture!
The distance after Ardrossan against it is not worth in the slightest and was fast forgotten; It continued to go on the Isle OF Arran.

Ferries to and between the Inner and Outer Hebrides: Caledonian MacBrayne

Over Kintyre back auf's mainland, to Portavadie, was and from there on the small coastal road of far until Inveraray.
With the view of the Faehrverbindungen to exterior the Hebriden it showed up that just only on the following day a ferry stores, which arrives also at acceptable time (19,30 o'clock) at South Uist. Thus times again if everything forgot my plans, branched early on the next morning out of the bed and hurried after Oban too radeln around the ferry abzupassen.

South Uist did not please me despite wonderful landscape so particularly - because of the fences already mentioned. Large exception (natural): the JH. harms that there are hardly still such lodgings. North Uist pleased me against it already substantially better. Here even the first green zigzag lines in my cards emerge - personal marking for extraordinarily beautiful distances.
They begin Leverburgh on North Uist, pull away themselves the Faehrverbindung Newtonferry - along and finally completely over South Lewis!

The kilometers - again on Scottish mainland soil - to Scrabster discharge opening I I followed a route strongly predominantly by farm areas. Thus not necessarily worth mentioning.

Ferries to Orkney and Shetland: Northlink Ferries, John O' Groats to Orkney Ferry

Shetland, unique Shetland

Nachdem ich von der schon erwähnten Stippvisite zu Bruders Hochzeit wieder eingetroffen war blieb ich nochmal ein paar Tage. Wieder aklimatisieren. Und natürlich auch das Schiff nach Bergen / Norwegen abpassen.

Ferry between Shetland Island and Bergen: Smyril Line