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A Trip to Scotland and the Western
Isles July 2000 
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Approach to Stornoway, Lewis,Scotland with a ferry on its way out. © Ole Jacobi July 2000
Thursday 13 July 2000
We start the day at the Tourist Office, trying to book a B&B for tonight,
and after many abortive calls, the girl manages to get us a room
at Point, 5 miles outside Stornoway. We use the morning at the museum where
there is an exhibition on the Viking influence in the Western Isles - quite
a large influence, it seems. After lunch at an awful coffeeshop in a supermarket,
we cycle out of town to find our B&B in Point. The house is in a village
with quite a few houses, but no shops or places to eat, so our host recommends
that we take a bus back to Stornoway in the evening to get a meal, as it’s
blowing quite hard against. As we get ready to take the bus at 5:08, he
tells us that it has just gone, 10 minutes early, and offers to drive us
to town in his car. As it has now also started to rain, we thankfully accept
the offer. It turns out that the bus, he saw was not the regular one which
turned up right on time, so he could have saved himself the trouble. Another
example of the many kindnesses we have met with on our trip. We manage
to catch the right bus back to Point after a bar meal at the County Hotel,
and have a long interesting talk with our hosts in the evening.
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