It's seven days and 30 minutes since the Isle of Lewis ferry sailed out of Stornoway with Anna and I aboard for the journey to Bishopbriggs. In less than an hour I shall be retracing my steps. To me it seems like I have been away from home for an age and done so much and yet, at the same time, it seems like no time at all since I arrived here. Time plays very odd tricks.
At that point various things happened and I'm now back home after one of the most traffic-free journeys I have ever made from Glasgow to Ullapool in the summer up the A9. Add to that a flat calm, if rather dull and unphotogenic, crossing of the Minch on MV Isle of Lewis and it was a nigh on perfect journey.
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| MV Isle of Lewis arriving at Ullapool |
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| Stern open waiting to disgorge the vehicles |
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| Leaving Ullapool |
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| Looking towards the head of a very dull and dour Loch Broom |
I'm hoping that I will now have a couple of weeks to catch up fully with Blogland and all the things I have to do around the house and garden.
sometimes uneventful is good, especially when traveling!
ReplyDeletewelcome home!
Absolutely true Norma.
DeleteGlad to hear that you're back home safely.
ReplyDeleteAt least now, when future trips are a pain in the butt, you can recall this easy peasy trip with fondness.
Thanks Virginia. It would be nice to believe that future journeys would be as good but evidence from 40 years of doing that journey suggest otherwise so I may well need that fondness memory!
DeleteTime does indeed play some very odd tricks. Glad your trip was good, but even more glad you are back (selfish, I know).
ReplyDeleteYes Meike. When I started reading your blog last night I could not believe that I had missed so many posts. I shall return and start commenting - yesterday I just re-read previous posts you had mentioned. I was astonished how much I remembered of them.
DeleteWelcome back!
ReplyDeleteThank you Frances.
DeleteI hope you'll get a few days of "flat calm" at home as well. (In the sense of peaceful and being able to take things at slow pace if you want to.)
ReplyDeleteWell so far today, Monica, I've had a very satisfyingly busy day and I'm now going to have some dinner.
DeleteThey are having a new ferry next summer. The Isle of Lewis is being retired. They will then run a 24/7 service.
ReplyDeleteJust as well you got a picture for posterity.
Reading your post made me remember how in some places life revolves around the ferry in a quiet sort of way. Whereas I don't see a ferry from one year's end to the next.
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