Honeymoon Plans
So it’s worth starting this blog post with an edit.
Sadly, due to the covid-19 pandemic, we had to sadly cancel our honeymoon as the current UK government guidance is not to travel. Whilst it was still a few weeks away, we expected the government advice to remain the same and travelling the length of Britain seemed very irresponsible. Luckily our airbnb host was amazing and gave us a full refund so we are hoping to rebook for May 2021 instead.
We booked our honeymoon back in November or December of last year but we’d settled on the plan a little while before that. We thought quite a bit about where we wanted to go and Jos’ passport has expired and whilst we really need to get around to renewing it, we’d pretty much already made up our minds on what we wanted to do.
One of our absolute favourite things to do is road trip, we have a big truck we both love to drive and we have said for the 10 years we’ve been together that we’d like to visit Scotland, somewhere neither of us had been so we thought why not combine it all and take the truck on a mega road trip to Scotland. I almost plucked the Isle of Skye out of thin air but deep down I know it’s been at the back of my mind since I saw Sophie Cliff go there a few years back and the idea has never quite escaped me.
It took us one failed attempt at booking an airbnb where the host was a bit of a knob in communication and cancelled the booking but we got lucky with a lovely host on the second time round and it was clearly meant to be. I’ll be sharing the link to our cottage when we have stayed there because we hope to book the same one for next year but it looks super cosy, warm and very scottish and the views are to die for.
We booked our honeymoon from Friday 1st May to Sunday 10th with good reason - early May bank holiday falls in that week so one less day I have to book off work, the weather should hopefully have turned for the better and most important of all….our 10 year anniversary falls mid week.
The idea of going to Skye was to be able to explore what looks like some of the most incredible scenery on earth but mainly we were thinking it would be the perfect place to relax. We were going to take all the books we haven’t read, watch all the boxsets we haven’t finished and see all the films we never started. After a hectic couple of years with no holiday we were daydreaming about lazy mornings, going on long hikes, driving to the outer edges of the island and watching lots of incredible sunsets. Didn’t bank on months worth of staying indoors on government advice did we?
I hadn’t really done any research into Skye before we had to cancel our honeymoon, instead focusing on the wedding and planning to get stuck into honeymoon plans in March but as the world took a turn and it became apparent we weren’t going to make it away this year again, I gave up researching, deciding not to torture myself on what should have been.
We had however vaguely planned the route up, choosing to drive several hours over a few days to get there and stopping in some parts of the country we have never explored before. I find there is something incredibly exciting about leaving for a holiday straight from work (even though I curse myself every time when I’m stressing about packing) so Jos was going to meet me at my office with the truck fully loaded on the Friday night and set straight off from there.
We intended to get as far as the other side of Birmingham on the first night, expecting terrible traffic at rush hour and knowing B’Ham is a bottle neck we’d sooner rather get past and we’d have booked a cheap Travelodge or Premier Inn just to tide us over for one night before the weekend of long drives ahead. On the first Saturday of the week we wanted to get up to the Lake District where we’d spend the night, somewhere around Windmere where the boutique hotels looked amazing but were booking up fast already when I did a quick search for a room. On the Sunday we’d have broken Scotland and then driven over the Skye bridge (something we were fighting about who got to drive over it already) and then to our accommodation for the week, before heading home the following Saturday, stopping in a lodge or chalet somewhere in the Peak District for one last night of luxury before home.
We might not be going on honeymoon this year, we might end up spending our 10 year anniversary in the house like the previous few months but at least we are healthy, safe and pretty bloody glad we went on our mini moon!!!!