No rain today
It is not raining this morning so it is camp coffee, outside, whilst reading my book and waiting for the boys to wake up.
lightweight camping
Inverness and Dingwall
We moved on from the timeshare in Aviemore this morning to camping in Dingwall, via Inverness
Inverness
We were looking for Pokemon and Geocaches and both of these took us to some out if the way places in the city we had not seen before.
This pillar are the remaining ruins of a Dominican Friary that was founded by Alexander II in 1233.
near Old High Church Inverness
shopping in Inverness
Dingwall
The boys are using the Birds Head tent, I have my MSR Hubba.
Set up and we have already had a cup of tea. The weather yesterday was not great, it rained overnight and was foggy this morning – now it is great again, in the low twenties.
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Jedburgh – “Jedi” – Camping in Scotland
To avoid the Newcastle A1 roadworks I used the A68 today – with a lunchtime stop in Jedburgh.
I managed to get to Scotch Corner with the MX-5 top down before some light rain forced me to pull over and put the roof up. However after leaving Jedburgh it was down again.
Rain at Scotch Corner
I got to the campsite by mid-afternoon and there was no more rain but I was glad I packed the quilted fleece liner for my M65 jacket as it was cool sitting out having my tea. For tonight I have my Helly Hansen base layer, a fleece liner and my down sleeping bag. I am not expecting to get cold.
Lauder Camping and Caravan Club Site
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New cooking kit photo – new Alpkit gear
I have added some new Alpkit gear to my lightweight backpacking and camping cook set.
I have a busy weekend of paperwork for Octagon.
Alpkit gear
However I am going camping in Scotland for Easter – so I took some time off to sort my backpacking cooking kit and make a new annotated photo for the website.
The main changes this year are the new bits of Alpkit kit – a titanium mug with a lid and a titanium folding spoon. This is a bit of kit that when added to the micro sized Alpkit Kraku stove makes a real minimalist cook set.
Alpkit is a great UK company, producing great gear at a reasonable price – we should support them.
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New Kit – Aplkit Folding Titanium Spoon
Jeremy bought me an Aplkit folding spoon for Christmas, to go with the titanium mug and lid he bought me for my birthday.
Weight 18g, packs inside the mug with my Alpkit Kraku stove.
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Spice box for camping
I bought this Light My Fire spice box in the summer in Scotland, but I only found it again this morning when I went to sort out my camping food tin.
The spice pot was in in a sale box for a pound as the packaging had been lost. There are markings on two of the sections – “S” and “P” but as I use salt and pepper packets from cafes I have put sumac, in the “S”, smoked paprika in the “P” and garam masala in the third. All of these spices are very useful when I am camping or backpacking as they are “shake over” rather than “cook in” spices so I can easily jazz up my food.
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