Island Life

Good afternoon from the Isle Of Coll on the West Coast of Scotland. It's a beautiful place, even in the grey weather we have. I'll definitely be coming back when it's forecast to be sunny, and will take the man and my tripod with me so I can take some lovely pictures of the scenery. It's just amazing. Will take a car across as well so we can go touring around the place. It's like a wee maze, but it's awesome. This is the kind of place I could see myself setting up camp in permanently. Just have to sort out the mobile signal situation, and a good stock of irn bru and chocolate and I'm sorted. Or maybe we'll just come over here for the odd weekend to get away from everything. Would be really nice actually. Totally secluded from the mainland, with the necessities available and not much else. Saying that, as long as we have each other and food, we're sorted!

Anyways, since I haven't done that much of a post lately, I'm going to do a fairly lengthy one now. Sorry if you're getting bored already! You might be reading for a while, or get more bored and wander off into the vast universe of the internet. Wouldn't really surprise me, since I do tend to ramble on about nothing in particular.

I suppose I could tell you about my journey to Coll. Please, settle yourself in, get a cup of tea. I'll wait til you're back.... Back yet? Good. Now, snuggle up and keep reading. I started out at 12.35pm on the train from my village, and landed in Aberdeen at 1.10pm where I met the man, and we went for coffee, then a wander, then went for lunch at the usual steak place. When we finally got our meals though, the chicken wasn't cooked through, and I brought this to the attention of the staff. They were very apologetic and said they'd cancelled it off our bill. We thought we had just got a discount, but they'd cleared the entire bill, so we got 2 big meals for nothing. Quite amazing. But anyways, finally we headed to the station, and misty-eyed I kissed my man goodbye and went off onto the train for Perth.

I met my friend at 6.10pm and we went to Tesco for some last minute essentials and then headed back to his where I was given a pizza. Given = fresh pizza, from the fridge, told to cook it. That was awesome. I can cook pizza, and managed to eat it all, which rather surprised me! We then toddled round to his Gran's before going back to his again and then prepared to leave... at midnight. We were on the road at 12am sharp and were in Oban at 2.47am, which was rather good, but then it meant trying to sleep. Of course, I couldn't because I got so restless as usual and spent the next hour and a half twitching. However, we finally got let onto the ferry with the car and I walked on.

All in all, I'm bored of typing about a random time away without the man, and it doesn't help that I've forgotten most of what happened - this was started on the 6th of August... So, I'll just say it was an amazing time and I think I'll be back at some point, taking the man with me.

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