Holy Island to St Abbs
We had originally planned a little one night trip to the lake district but after checking the weather forecast I thought it looked too windy. I can take rain, clouds, anythings. Just not wind. I have this bizarre fear that our van will tip over or my house windows will blow in or one of us will fly away into the sky, never to be seen again. I just don’t do wind.
Luckily, when you’re in a van, you can change your route very easily. We headed north up the coast instead, stopping at Holy Island for a coffee break and to stretch our legs. Sometimes I think we have more hours in the day then everybody else because in that very same afternoon we managed to drive even further north towards Canty Bay, to a little storage container cafe sat right on the cliffs, Drift cafe. Huge walls of glass let you look right out onto the sea while you sit in the warmth.
I’d found an overnight parking spot on the app Park4Night that had a lot of 5 star reviews, so we headed to St Abbs, a small fishing village on the very south eastern coast of Scotland. You can park right on the coast, looking out onto the rocks. All you need to do is pop a tenner and your reg into the box at the harbour master’s hut. Some people don’t want to pay for overnight spots at all, but for the view in the morning it was worth it, and it was totally quiet all night. Not another person in sight.