This is Dave standing by our home on wheels. Its has everything we need for five week away. When we were students we used to pack a fishing tent, a blow up mattress and sleeping bags and then head for Italy or Greece. Now we pack the caravan and head north to the land of my fathers. This year our travels will take us along NC500 and over to Orkney. We even bought T-shirts with runic writing on them. Don’t judge us, okay.

Our biggest problem when staying away for so long is the garden. Luckily, we have a wonderful neighbour who waters the plants and feeds the birds for us. The day will come when we won’t be able to travel this way due to age and infirmatroy so we’re making the most of it. When that day dawns we’ll sell the van and stay in AirBNBs instead. Which leads me to our next photo.

It’s a wee bit mad but . . . we’ll leave our van for a week in a site near Oban and cross over to Mull to stay in this AirBnB. It was the inspiration behind the Airstream I feature in my Dark Sky Trilogy – Beag air Bheag – litlte by little. The Hero in my novels is suffering from PTSD as a result of been blowing up in Afghanistan.He’s retired to his parents Highland estate to recover and there he meets my heroine, Halley Dunbar, an astronomer. I can’t tell you what a thrill it was to actually stay somewhere I’d only seen in photos or on the web. This year, we’re staying in it for a whole week. People ask us if we’re bothered by the midges, the answer is no. In the garden they have a major exterminator and we cover ourselves in skin so soft.

Dear readers and intrepid explorers. it works. I don’t want to make this a long post as I’m experimenting with using jet pack on my MacBook to post. I gave up logging because I was fed up using WordPress on my desktop and nothing seeming to work. It remains to be seen if I stick with this method. So far, so good. I’m not doing anything fancy, just writing it like a newsletter.

Well, I didn’t think that would work !! But it did. This is an image I made using the free “Grok” app and it shows the heroine and hero from my Dark Sky trilogy. Tor is an Afghan war veteran and Halley is an astrophysicist. They meet when Halley returns to Scotland to organise her great-uncle’s funeral and bumps in to Tor, quite literally, on a moonlit beach and knocks him out cold. They are perfect for each other but they don’t know that in the beginning but – as we find out – their love really was written in the stars.

I’ll finish this blog post by sharing my six Scottish romances. I hope you will take a chance on me and download one of them, here – viewAuthor.at/LizzieLamb