Last week we had a camping holiday in Scotland. Overall, it was excellent although the drive up and back wasn’t the most enjoyable experience and, once on our campsite, we were made fully aware of why people speak of Scottish midges in tones of fear!

One thing the midges did was to encourage us not to hang around on the campsite too much or stand still for long in rural areas unless a decent breeze was blowing. On our second full day, the weather was dominated by light showers but more than ample for doing a circular walk around Loch Trool. Here is one of the photos I took after an Instagram filter:

One mistake on the day involved my DSLR camera. I’d taken it but, getting it out of my rucksack, I found it had no power. I thought I must have switched it on when I wrapped it in a t-shirt and put it in the bag. I discovered that fairly early in the journey so was able to nip back to the car and put it in the boot rather than carrying the useless camera all the way round the lake. However, it turned out that I hadn’t put the battery back in after charging it before we set off.

I did have the battery back at camp so I also have some DSLR shots from later in the holiday but all Wednesday’s pictures relied on my phone (set uploaded to Flickr) and iPad (pending).