Inverness, Culloden and home

A quick update:  we’ve made it to Inverness and it’s been raining.

Inverness is in Scotland. 

We moored in Inverness Marina.

Sunset in Inverness Marina

Footloose moored next to us and did some cleaning.

Martin scrubbed our cockpit.

I had a short sleep.

Invigorated after my rest, it was time to get on with the manly task of fixing the engine. 

Unfortunately my efforts rendered a normally functioning engine unoperational.

 Fortunately Caley Marina was only a short bike ride away and rather like Stromness (see “Stromness etc.”) also had a very nice man who did welding and refused any payment for his work.

Saturday 3^rd August 2013

We hired a car and checked out Culloden. 

Reader(s) will remember that The Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746 was the last pitched battle fought on British soil, until the invention of league football in 1894. We had a guided walk around a field by a strangely dressed actor, and later Martin was given a rifle to play with by the same man (now dressed in a kilt).  Martin did not wear a kilt, but a Danish man had to take off his shoes and run around shouting a lot. 

It reminded me of passport control at Gatwick.

After two days of sightseeing which included a very pleasant walk near the town of Cromarty, our happy team disbanded for the journey south.

Tuesday 6^th August

Home at last, but where is  Bonzo …………………….?

Erratum:  the author apologises unreservedly for the inadvertent opacity of the basking shark joke (16 July). This joke relies on the juxtaposition of a conceptual guitar case with a pun on the word “busking”.  Unfortunately the author was not aware, at the time of publication, that “busking” was spelt with a “u”. The author regrets any distress or confusion caused by this oversight.