Last year we hired a 27ft RV to travel the North Coast 500 and since very little has changed with foreign travel apart from the intro of mass confusion and red tape, we’ve hired the same one again and are visiting a few more places in Scotland.

First night at a B&B in Gretna named after a Neil Diamond song (should have known it wouldn’t be any good just like the music), run by a couple who only bought it 3 weeks ago. Arrival was more like an interrogation, when all you really want to do is go to the loo or collapse, but hey it’s friendly enough, with the new wife who “speak very good inglish” but makes a terrible breakfast, a door that opens to the upstairs that actually opens on the stairs and if you have bags would challenge a contortionist, a room that is sweltering even with all the windows open, a collapsed mattress with a topper on it and a TV that sits at 90’degrees to the bed. I know they are learning, but it is the little things that either appeal or don’t in this industry.

Marks out of 10, 5.5. Next stop Mabel the MoHo