Nearly stranded!

Well it has been quite a night and day! After our lovely day of good weather and walking yesterday, things did not go to plan! First of all I was kept awake almost all night by a VERY upset tummy. I will not go into any details (you will be glad to know) but by the morning I was exhausted, feeling wrung out like a wet dishrag. And then, instead of the continued good weather that we were hoping for, we opened the curtains to find sleet lashing against the windows and a windy, choppy sea. Even James didn't want to go walking in that, and in fact it was James who made the decision not to. (Honestly!) We had a nice hotel breakfast and then headed to the ferry terminal which is very near the hotel. But when we got there the ferries were not running because of the wind! We were (temporarily) stranded! Some of the other passengers were worried about missing flights that they were travelling for. One old guy told us a story about a friend of his in the 1950s who ran to catch a ferry when it was about four feet from the pier. First he threw his bag on and then he jumped after it, landing on the ferry with a great cry of triumph. To which the ferryman said, "We're just coming in!" James went over to a newsagent and bought a newspaper for himself and a Hello magazine for me, and we spent a pleasant hour or so catching up with the news (and in my case the celebrity gossip - something I'm not proud of but enjoy - I see that William and Kate have been skiing at Courchevel!) The ferry restarted at 12 and we were home just after 1 o'clock. After lunch I went for a sleep; when I woke up mid afternoon it was snowing heavily! What a difference from the warm weather last week!