Usually, when we’re on holiday, we’re wanting to come home at the end of our time. We miss our cats and our house, and on this trip, I miss Indian takeaways ;-).

However, we both felt that we could have managed more time. I don’t think I could permanently live in a place as isolated, but the peace was nice (and in fact, the crowds around Durness at one point felt uncomfortable).

However, we had a pre-booked overnight stop somewhere nice on the way back, so back on the road.

An uneventful journey back towards and on the A9 saw us conveniently near Blair Atholl at lunchtime and a drop into the Bothy Bar at the Blair Atholl hotel got us lunch. Onwards got us to Callander, a town we’ve driven through, but never stopped, and a very nice hotel indeed as a close to our holiday and a treat for a special occasion by around 3:30pm. (241 miles, 5:26, unknown mpg)

Callander was nice. We’d stayed up the road in Killin before now, but never here. We had a short hobble around the town before dinner, a drink in the lovely bar, and settling in to our suite for the evening (we’d got a complimentary upgrade!).

A positively lovely breakfast saw us back on the road around 9:30 with a brief refuelling stop just up the road, and clearly something was wrong: a bank holiday weekend, and a easy journey back (4:56, 312 miles, 54.5 mpg. Back to our kitties.