Familiar Scottish territory and some new sights

It feels as if I’ve been writing about our autumn holiday in 2024 for a very long time. As it turns out, I’ve just looked back, and I wrote the first blog post in the series, about Godstow in Oxfordshire, in October of that year. Anyway, after we had a wonderful break on the Isle of Skye, our next stop was eastern Scotland, where we hadn’t been for quite some time. After a very long drive, we arrived in the rolling farmland of Angus to revisit some old haunts. The weather was very pleasant, so I managed to photograph some of the scenes that have stuck in my memory ever since I first visited 20 years earlier: hay bales ready to be collected from the fields, the wonderful rattling of the sea as it hits the pebbles on Auchmithie beach, and some new sights, too. Jo on Auchmithie beach A golden field full of hay bales near Forfar After a couple of days in the very familiar landscape of Angus, we started heading south towards our next extended stay in Cumbria. We decided to stop at the…