Friday, August 17, 2012

Scotland, day 8: Harris.

Yeah well, today was a bit of a fiasco to be honest, not what we expected. We wanted to walk this little trail that was on one of Marjolein's walking maps of the area, so we set off to catch a bus down the east side of the island to drive up the Golden road. Cycling was absolutely not an option because the ride earlier this week actually injured me too much :-/

We had coffee in the Butty bus. A kind of mobile coffee house / snackbar in a van except that this was was not ever going to move again.

The bus ride made Marjolein sick to her stomach so she couldn't enjoy it much. Not that there was a lot to see coz the windows kept fogging up anyway. But, we got there in the end: Golden road junction.

The middle of nowhere.

Not even sheep...

Just the peat-bog in the bloody rain.

The rain gradually got worse. The track was only on the map, not on this earth. We couldn't find it. After getting lost in the woop-woops and walking around for a few hours in spongy peat-boggy soil getting wet from either rain or sweat we set off to a point in the distance where we had seen a car drive. I felt miserable and only wanted 1 thing: To get home.

When we got to the road we found out the next bus would only pass in 2 hours so we hitch hiked and a nice English couple took us along to the Luskentyre tearoom we'd been before.

Had there been a trail and if the weather would've been better I'm sure this would've been a nice walk. But like this, it turned into a day I could've done without...

No comments: