scotlands fantastic countryside

after the  Hebrides cycle   trip which truly lived up to our expectations we all returned to our daily life`s refreshed and happy to start planning our next adventures, Bob headed off to Europe in his motor-home with Joyce and his boys for three months up through Norway and kept an excellent blog of the journey / https://bobjoycallog.blogspot.com/             Ali went back to work but started to dream of retirement when he could get more time to get out and play on his bike, he ditched his cheap panniers and purchased a new set with promises he would be doing another cycle trip, Gary and myself still go out together cycling occasionally but with nothing to plan, the rest of the group have slipped back on cycling days out, maybe once Ali does retire he can give me some more help with my web page/ http://www.kennyalexander.scot/           Guy brought round to my house some of his footage and filming he had taken...

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 2:3...

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 ...