Be adaptable
Planning for a trip
Damian recommends considering the proximity of your lodgings to each destination on your itinerary, as you’ll have to factor in travel times and make sure you understand your route, “as invariably walks/drives in and out will take place in darkness.” In the run-up to the Affric trip, he printed off OS maps (from Bing Maps) for each area he was interested in and marked the direction of sunrise and sunset with diagonal lines. “I also pencilled in the specific vantage points I wanted to get to and calculated how many of these spots I could feasibly get around in a short winter day.”