It seemed like a long time, sitting in the Tongadale Arms in Portree, with the rain lashing down outside and the windows rattling with the wind. The flow of time wasn't helped by the Scottish accordion music, which began to grate after a few hours...
Andy arrived around 5pm and, once we had put all our wet things back on he led us through Portree to his house. It was still raining hard and the wind was trying to turn my cycling cape (on loan from Richard) into an inverted umbrella. This does not help visibility, by the way.
Andy had intended to do some cycling with a John O'Groats to Lands End-er, but had been walking in Torridon with his partner Cat instead. Brave couple! He's a dentist in Portree, house-sitting for a man from Kendal who has just turned up! He seemed to know that we'd be here...
It's stopped raining at last. I've even seen some blue sky. Still windy but hopefully it will have died down a little by tomorrow, when we intend to cycle round the northern part of Skye to Uig, and then take the ferry to Tarbert on Harris.
The locals keep saying how wonderful the weather has been. Until now. After last year it has a familiar ring to it!
KPO...
If the weather's good, I may drop down to the village and escort you back up into the Hills to Lochedge - if it's not, I'll be looking out the window
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