We booked all our accommodation on the web - three hotels, two guest houses, and ten apartments or bed-and-breakfasts. Most were booked through the Airbnb website which we've used before, and most were very good. One cancelled our booking at short notice (because her elderly mother had taken a fall) but we were able to find a replacement.
The true B&B's include your breakfast prepared by the operator, whereas many of the Airbnb places are actually apartments or cottages where you get a full kitchen and look after yourself. The B&B's give you more interaction because they are generally friendly chatty people, and quite interesting to talk to.
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| Our first B&B, in the Cotswolds. |
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| An excellent cottage near Wales. |
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| Inside the cottage above. |
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| Our slightly bizarre "chalet" in Wales. |
In Wales our "chalet" was a slightly bizarre temporary-looking building which sat on the edge of a large grassy clearing. A family of rabbits sat at the other end of the meadow most of the day, watching us and nibbling away.
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| The guesthouse in Windemere (Lake District) |
A guesthouse is just a bed-and-breakfast but with several rooms for guests instead of just one. The Windemere guesthouse had five rooms. In those places we ate in a breakfast room shared with the other guests, who we sometimes got to chat to.
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| Airbnb near Glasgow. |
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| Guest house in Fort William, looking out on the loch. |
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| Our attic room in the little hotel in Skye. |
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| Inverness apartment on the ground floor of this block. |
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| Edinburgh apartment was fully furnished and overlooked a bowling green. |
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| Another fully furnished apartment, in Durham this time |
Some apartments are sparsely but adequately furnished, intended for full time rental use, but others are packed with the owner's personal possessions.
