Lord of the Isles

Two weeks ago Davie and I arrived on Barra on the M.V. Clansman and I am writing this blog on the M.V. Lord of the Isles as we head home. It has been a wonderful holiday. Because we are leaving on a Saturday there is no ship out of Castlebay so we crossed to Eriskay and then drove to Lochboisdale, in two journeys so we could take all our passengers and luggage. I didn't recognise Lochboisdale at all from our previous visit twelve years ago, and I thought it was rather strung out along the road - not the most attractive village. However when we arrived at the Lochboisdale Hotel I recognised the large white-painted building immediately. We must have stopped there on our last trip, I even remembered the boys climbing around on the rocks beside the flagpole. We had a light lunch there until it was time to go onto the ferry. The journey has passed swiftly in a mixture of reading, sleeping, chatting over our meal and now blogging. Now we are about ten minutes from Oban so I will say yo ho ho and goodbye from the ship.