scotlands fantastic countryside

The journey home                 Bob and Tim had got up early and were away they had booked the 7 AM ferry home, the other four of us all strangely enough went down for breakfast in the guest house at the exact same time! And enjoyed a full cooked breakfast with loads of coffee and orange juice, our ferry wasn’t until 2PM so we had plenty time to shower organise our stuff and leave it all including the bikes in the garden of the guest house and go for a wander around town,             We would have liked to go round and see the shore side monument to H.M.Y   Iolaire ,   this tragic ship that was carrying sailors and soldiers who had been off fighting in the world war one taking them back home to the island of Lewis. This boat had left the port of Kyle of Lochalsh on the mainland late on the evening of 31 December 1918. At 2:30 a.m. on New Year's Day, carrying men coming home from the war as the ship approached the port of Stornoway, a few yards offshore and a mile awa

Day 6 last push Callanish stones   As usual I was last to wake but surprisingly guy had slept as long as me, we got woken by Gary all fine though it was a braw sunny morning and we had plenty time. The shower toilet and a wee kitchen were in a stand alone pod a fair distance away. I was first in the shower it takes pound coins to operate a timer we were all in and out in a timely fashion, packed up good to go all the keys were collected, these were to be posted in a box once we had finished with everything, whoops there was a drama one of the keys had dropped through a slat in the wooden walkway and was proving a devil to get out Tim eventually got it with a twig turned into hook and we were off not far though, only 0.4miles down the road to the standing stones to have a wonder round and a photo stop before bacon roles and coffee at the visitors centre,                 As we left there was a woman in full pagan style gown and crazy hair arriving, we were to find out much l