We have had an eventful couple of days house-hunting in Ullapool. The weather was so great on Monday that we sat outside the Arch Inn to have cool drinks and then I was able to go swimming in the sea at Ardmair. It was right proper swimming in deep water - the sea was about the warmest that I have ever experienced in Scotland. When I went in at first it did feel cold, but not that horribly unbearable way. So I took my time, slowly cooling myself down to the temperature of the water as I went in deeper. Soon I was swimming up and down parallel to the shore, looking at the mountains and the sky and the water. It was brilliant. Funnily enough, after I got dried and dressed, I felt warm at first but then kept getting colder as if I had chilled right down to my bones. Strange.
I didn’t really heat up properly until I had my dinner at the Aultguish Inn, where we were spending the night. The sign outside says “Dam good food” in jocular reference to the dam above the Inn, and indeed the food was hearty and delicious. We went out for a wee walk up to the dam after dinner and nearly got eaten alive by midges. Some midges were also lurking in our bedroom and homed in on midge magnet James, who sadly did not have a restful night.
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