Author Topic: Mull next week! (Read 6084 times)

andrewc · « **Reply #50 on:** 27 May, 2014, 07:15:08 pm »

Waves at Baggers from approx 2 1/2 miles away.

Ruth · « **Reply #51 on:** 27 May, 2014, 07:17:53 pm »

If you see a skinny American, with wife and three boys, say HI for me! My friends Clay and Frances are in Mull too.

Is there anybody at all left on the mainland

Kim · « **Reply #52 on:** 27 May, 2014, 07:21:43 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 27 May, 2014, 07:17:53 pm

Is there anybody at all left on the mainland

I expect the reserve midges are holding the fort.

I did say at Long Itch that there were going to be midges... There's always midges.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #53 on:** 27 May, 2014, 07:30:40 pm »

This merely seves to demonstrate the extent to which TWKWSTA.

mcshroom · « **Reply #54 on:** 27 May, 2014, 10:21:22 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 27 May, 2014, 07:17:53 pm

If you see a skinny American, with wife and three boys, say HI for me! My friends Clay and Frances are in Mull too.

Is there anybody at all left on the mainland

That Farrage bloke says there's millions of Romanians here on the mainland, or something

Wowbagger · « **Reply #55 on:** 28 May, 2014, 09:32:19 am »

Quote from: Ruthie on 27 May, 2014, 07:17:53 pm

If you see a skinny American, with wife and three boys, say HI for me! My friends Clay and Frances are in Mull too.

Is there anybody at all left on the mainland

We have met some Americans, but not that fit that description.

Jan is coughing well, as well as suffering from The Wee Beastie Bites. We will have a day or two off the bike and potter into Craignure for Friday night and the tent again. Hopefully she will have recovered then. Possibly a bus into Tobermory today.

andrewc · « **Reply #56 on:** 28 May, 2014, 11:21:22 am »

Hope Jan gets better soon.

I seem to be suffering from lack of Mojo at the moment & can't decide where to go or what to do next!

Canardly · « **Reply #57 on:** 28 May, 2014, 11:40:14 am »

Make the most of it you are having the best of the weather atm. It is appalling in the SE

peliroja · « **Reply #58 on:** 28 May, 2014, 11:55:10 am »

Poor Jan. Give her my love. Seawater is good for midge bites.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #59 on:** 28 May, 2014, 12:08:34 pm »

After attending to some laundry we caught the 95 bus to Tobermory and we are sitting in a tea room, having ordered cake. We have two more nights in the Salen Hotel.

Dave_C · « **Reply #60 on:** 28 May, 2014, 12:48:01 pm »

Go visit the soap shop, they sell some nice soaps.

Clare · « **Reply #61 on:** 28 May, 2014, 01:03:27 pm »

Island Bakery for the best biscuits ever.

They are good for midge bites.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #62 on:** 28 May, 2014, 04:30:56 pm »

Quote from: Dave_C on 28 May, 2014, 12:48:01 pm

Go visit the soap shop, they sell some nice soaps.

Are you trying to tell me something? $:-\$

Dave_C · « **Reply #63 on:** 28 May, 2014, 04:32:09 pm »

I've never met you before! You're not from Glasgow are you? ;0)

Wowbagger · « **Reply #64 on:** 28 May, 2014, 04:55:42 pm »

We have decided to have an unladen potter tomorrow to Ulva, and possibly a look at Eas Fors, if we get that far. We might just have a walk on the island and food at the boat house.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #65 on:** 28 May, 2014, 06:54:10 pm »

This hotel does not seem to offer wifi. This is bad. It appears that I have improved the efficacy of my wifi hotspot by balancing it high in the window.

We had a lovely pottering bike-free day today. Leisurely breakfast, a bit of laundry, 11.05 bus to Tobermory, cake and coffee, another wander, some gentle spodding, wrote a few post cards, including some e-post cards to offspring, some fish and chips from the quayside, more sitting outside in the sun, a rain shower, a look round the marine centre, a pub and the bus back.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #66 on:** 28 May, 2014, 09:28:11 pm »

Here is a sun tan selfie from Sunny Scotland.

https://mobile.twitter.com/WowbaggerHT/status/471749123172212736

Wowbagger · « **Reply #67 on:** 28 May, 2014, 10:24:01 pm »

It is 10.23pm and it is far from dark.

bumper · « **Reply #68 on:** 28 May, 2014, 10:27:10 pm »

You sure that's not rust

Wowbagger · « **Reply #69 on:** 29 May, 2014, 04:53:12 am »

Mrs. Wow has been coughing badly for a while and now has a high temperature. I have found a doctor's surgery a short distance away and we will go there in the morning.

She's nearly always ill when we go on holiday. Meanwhile, tea and paracetamol.

andrewc · « **Reply #70 on:** 29 May, 2014, 08:35:01 am »

Yikes.! GWS Jan

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #71 on:** 29 May, 2014, 08:55:09 am »

She was not ill on our Mosel trip. Maybe she needs more German cake!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #72 on:** 29 May, 2014, 06:33:11 pm »

No infection, apparently. Asthma. An increase in her inhalers.

Meanwhile, Jan had a day back at the hotel and pottering around Salen. I went to Ulva, which I am sure is ripe for a Limerick. It was a lovely ride over, punctuated by groups of people wielding binoculars and spotting scopes. There was a sea eagle on a lump on a hill. It took off briefly once while it was being mobbed by a buzzard and a hooded crow. The eagle was completely unconcerned by the crow, but every time the buzzard flew at it, it took a little jump and tried to deliver a passing peck.

When on Ulva I went for a pleasant walk but saw nothing more exciting than tadpoles, living a precarious existence in a pool about ten yards from a patch of sea weed. At the Boathouse, the coffee, cake and smoked salmon roll were all excellent.

On the way back I ran the gauntlet of more spotting scopes: both the sea eagles were soaring high. There were more divers, a pair of black throated and another of great northern. Later there was quite a crowd with their binoculars and spotting scopes pointing firmly downwards towards a patch of bladderwrack. There was an otter, basking in the shallow water grazing on whatever shellfish it could find. It had clearly met with some mishap or other as there was a very sore-looking pink patch on its tail.

So, a holiday not without its problems (Mrs. Wow's health) but very good weather-wise and no complaints at all about the array of wildlife on offer. Tomorrow we cover the 10.5 miles back to Craignure and then back to Oban and Edinburgh on Saturday, home on Sunday.

It will be B and B for us from now on.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #73 on:** 30 May, 2014, 08:17:39 am »

Even though I paid in advance for the expensive campsite, I have enquired of all the b and bs within 4 miles of the ferry for tonight. Jan coughed less last night, but her chest aches through muscular strain and she feels completely washed out. Only 10.5 miles to Craignure, though, it's flat and we've got all day.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #74 on:** 30 May, 2014, 03:05:44 pm »

We have just arrived at the "Chronicle" B & B which is immediately across the road from the campsite and next door to the pub. The journey over was pleasant and the weather is still good. We stopped for tea/coffee/ice cream and nattered to the Atkinson family, from Northallerton, who are well acquainted with some on this 'ere forum.

We are ensconced in our room but need to find something useful to do with the rest of the day.