We should have realised early on in our trip, when we missed out on the ferry from Mallaig to Skye because we hadn’t booked ahead, that it would be a good idea to book the ferry to Orkney.
We didn’t learn. We only thought of booking the ferry a couple of days before we wanted it, and there was no space for our little camper until much later in the week. We looked into taking a day trip across, so we could visit the main sites, but that would have been prohibitively expensive, so we had a change of plans.
Yesterday we drove though rain down the coast all the way to Inverness. We pottered around in the shops for a while and then headed to a campsite on the Beauly Firth. They were hosting the “Scotland Rally”.
I may be showing my age here, but this seems to consist of a lot of young people, mostly men, driving cars covered in stickers and flags, from Brussels to Skye. At each stop it is imperative to show your masculinity by walking around with your top off, doing chin-ups on the football posts, taking very long showers, drinking lots of beer, revving your engine and tooting your novelty horns. The loud music was a very Belgian mix of classic 80s pop and techno dance, which went on until about three in the morning. This morning theyall set off on their last leg, to disturb some other unsuspecting campers somewhere on Skye.
We decided that since we hadn’t gone to Orkney, we would make use of our extra couple of daysby going back across to the West, to places we know and love, so we’ve come back to Applecross for a couple of days.
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