Saturday, August 18, 2012

Scotland, day 9: Lewis.

Leaving Harris today. My bicycle injuries are on the mend thankfully so let's hope I can have another go in Lewis!

The bus ride was quite exciting because the door had a bit of a mind of its own and it kept opening at random moments. Here it's closed....

... and here it's popped open (it comes inward). In Holland nobody would even dare taking a malfunctioning vehicle out on the road like this but our bus driver knew where the "close the damn door" button was very well so he just pressed that about 200 times...

We had a quick stop over in Stornoway where we had to change busses. I had to take cash out and was bitten about 10 times by midges while using the cash machine...

The rescue services were having a demo-day or something and there was a helicopter circling above.

Birdzzzzz.

Then we arrived at Lewis and as we walked up to our b&b realised that this was not it... ;-)

It was this. Fine place though!

Thankfully it wasn't this...

Sometimes the sun just shines on a hill or something. it makes for very nice photos.

We only went for a tiny walk in the evening, down to the water. There's a pebble beach where Marjolein looked for stones.

I saw nuts and bolts :-)

View across the water. It's actually a sea-loch.

There are ravens here...

... and buzzards! Awesome site :-)

Dinner time!

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