Sunday 17 June 2012

Jean says: Yesterday, we discussed leaving at 03.00 this morning to be able to get into Arbroath by midday today. We sensibly opted for plan B, which was to go to bed and stay there. Plan A has been re-scheduled for tomorrow morning, but the timings have moved forwards one hour, so 4.00 doesn't seem quite so bad.
We've now had a 3rd day of rest and feel much better for it. The highlight of the day was possibly the short walk to the Spar shop attached to a garage. We felt that one visit to the Peterhead Town centre was sufficient in a lifetime. Once we'd located the entrance to the Spar which was between a pizza take out shed and a greasy spoon cafe, we managed to find a cucumber and some kitchen roll. This enabled us to create a very Greek style salad, but without the Feta cheese, and wipe up efficiently afterwards (we already had some tomatoes). It can't all be high jinx and frivolity when you're on the high seas.
The rest of today has been spent reading, relaxing and planning where we can go when we head South from here. Next stop is Arbroath for the Smokies, and then Eyemouth. After that we'll be back in England for the first time in weeks. The whole time we've been in Scotland, we've had no trouble from midges. They've only got two more days to attack before we cross the border......

They may be good at marauding, but these Vikings aren't much good at parking!





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  1. Hello Bob and Jean. We wanted to let you know that once you get to Suffolk, we can bring provisions to you at a designated meeting point(send shopping list) or, if you prefer, get to Shotley Marina and we can take you in the car to TESCO (yikes) or the SUFFOLK FOOD HALL (tasty treats everywhere) or even BOTH (assuming you can deal with the excitement of all that!!). Loads of love Jules and JX

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