A Trip Home

This weekend saw me doing a return trip to the home island.  As some of you will know, son1 has spent the last 3 years attending the high school on the home island and staying with his dad there during term time.  But now my first baby is all grown up and has finished school ready to embark on his college days.  He's applied to attend Inverness College so with school over it was time to bring him back to Aviemore along with all his paraphernalia.

I headed up on the Saturday evening sailing from Ullapool to Stornoway (the town on the Isle of Lewis) and had the pleasure of using the brand spanking new linkspan that has been installed to accommodate CalMacs new MV Loch Seaforth ferry which has replaced the old MV Isle of Lewis (which I detested frankly).  It's the second time I've been on the new ferry but the first time was when they weren't taking cars so was a lot quieter and enjoyable!! This time I had to endure a very busy crossing due to it being the first time in 6 weeks you were able to take cars on the Ullapool - Stornoway route plus it was a bank holiday.  Nightmare!

Anyway,  as always I stopped in Inverness for a little light shopping to pick up crickets for my sisters bearded dragon Kevin (possibly my favourite family member) followed by the obligatory Frappe from Starbucks to see me on the drive to Ullapool.

The drive to Ullapool was pretty wet but my frappe and my new audiobook, Cannibal by Jeremy Robinson (fab, expect review soon), made it rather enjoyable.

View of the ferry from the Ullapool car park.  

Despite the sea being quite choppy it really wasn't noticeable and that's definitely a vast improvement on the last ferry which was rubbish in bad weather.

As you can see from the picture below, the car deck was pretty full.

Arrived at my destination with quite a few hours left of Eurovision to enjoy!

Yes, it was as fabulously bad as that picture indicates ;)

My return trip was on Sunday afternoon, this time with son1 and a full car, and I managed to get a much better picture of the ferry from Stornoway car park.

Seeing as I don't intend to do this trip again for quite a few months I indulged in my favourite ferry dinner of macaroni cheese and chips.  Mmmmmmm, best ferry food!

And that's the story of my weekend.  Hope you all had a good one :)

Kelly x