Inverness 22 Sept

Tonight we are in Inverness -- gorgeous from the air as we flew in from Kirkwall, less impresssive from the ground. We are sitting in the cushion filled "lounge" of a B & B on a very long road of B & Bs. It is very fine, but it's the kind of place where you have to find room to put the 6 cushions on the bed and the vases of faux flower arrangements on the windowsills that prevent the air from getting in.

It's a good 20 mins to the city centre, but we went down to find the tourist information center closed. We did buy train tickets to Skye for Thursday, though. We have cut a nice off here and added one to the ISle of SKye.

This morning after checking out of the Lynnfield Hotel (verdict -- unfriendly but spotless and if it were not for the crappy mattress adn the intermittent wireless, comfortable), we drove down to St. Margaret's Hope --- AWESOME! We drove over causeways with the sea tossing waves over it. The wind and rain were off and on all day but it was not really cold, just blustery. You can see SHIPWRECKS, masts, just sticking up out of the water!!!





St. Margaret's Hope is on the Island of Ronaldsay, south east of Kirkwall. It's a pretty seaside street or two, adn I finally found you girls a little something at a craft cooperative. Nice ladies knitting and such. -- Margaret, I got a good photo in front of St. Margaret's church in St. Margaret's Hope (why did I think her feast was 23 March? it's not).


Tired now, think I'll turn in and read some more Prisoner of Zenda -- lots of fun.

xoxox
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