Quite a varied day in many respects. Awoke at 8 this morning to the sight of part of the basin (inlet from the sea) opposite my window being frozen over. Overnight lows of -5C brought that about. The local news advised us that the ferry did not sail, and upon glancing out of the window I did indeed discern the familiar shape of the MV Isle of Lewis alongside the ferry pier.
It was a brilliantly sunny morning, and it looked like staying that way. Well, that sort of assumptions tends to get you wrongfooted in the Hebrides, and it promptly clouded over. Mind you, it did stay dry for the rest of the day, but we did not see the sun again after 1pm. I jumped on the bus to Ness, and that took ages to get out of Stornoway, dropping off and picking up passengers all along its route - more than customary. Arrived at the Ness Museum in Habost at 2pm and enlisted the help of the member of staff present in resolving some of my queries. The exhibition area of the museum was not heated, and I'm quietly wondering if an inside temperature of 7C is very good for the exhibits, many of which are quite old.
At half past two, I ambled down the road to the nearby cemetery and photographed 30 gravestones, marking the graves of or commemorating war casualties. This took me 45 minutes, which saw me just in time to catch the bus back to Stornoway. This was packed with schoolkids returning home from their day at the lessons. They are dropped off outside their doors.
I have not yet uploaded the pictures, so I shall put up a selection in a post tomorrow.
I'm glad it didn't rain on you while you were out anyway. We are supposed to see rain the rest of the week here, but I have enjoyed 4 straight days of sunshine and that is more than I've seen in a long long time. I haven't ridden a bus since I was a child and the thoughts of all the stops and starts reminds me how much I love my car. Our public transportation is almost nil as they keep shortening the route they have and have cut the hours drastically here.
ReplyDeleteAll those stops and starts on board the bus must have given you time to people watch Guido. These trips will give you an insight into the future islanders as well as the past inhabitants when you visit the war graves.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the comparisons of life before and now have changed that much?
We walked in the shade yesterday too because of cloud cover. We have blue skies today.
Jeanie