which is one of our favourite sayings at the moment. Mike, our letting agent says it to me every single month when I make my phonecall to him to check on rent collection progress ‘Don’t worry Nicola, we’re on it, we’re all over it like a rash’. Whilst the context is always totally hassle-filled it is a funny saying nonetheless so we’ve adopted it.
This morning we had breakfast observing the gorgeous view and our fellow camper getting up and packing his tent back up. He came to return the borrowed tent pegs but we said he could keep them. Wonder if he’ll think of us every time he uses them? 🙂
It was our plan to spend a couple of days in the Gairloch area as we were hoping to find plenty to do there including a laundrette as we are starting to run low on pants! Infact Davies has run out but we’ve been washing and drying them – the footwell in Willow on my side is always blowing with hot air as we keep the heater on to cool the engine so it’s perfect for drying clothes, shoes, anything else wet – I love the multi-purpose design functions ;).
We stopped at the tourist office and I asked if there was a laundrette in the town. There wasn’t but the woman suggested calling at the local campsite to ask if we could use theirs! The town had a fairly unfriendly feel to it with people stopping to stare at Willow a bit – we’re definitely feeling less free and happy the further back south we come. We stopped to empty the loo and fill up water bottles but the water is a bit yellow tinged so we’re boiling it before drinking even though there was no sign to say it’s not drinking water. We called in to a shop for some milk and put some petrol in Willow and headed out of the town.
We came across a parking area just outside the town so pulled over to see what was nearby and a friendly couple getting back into their car told us about a waterfall walk nearby which was one I actually had marked as a possible thing to do – Flowerdale Falls. We headed off and it was quite a nice walk to the falls and back with some blackberries to forage along the way. There were several bridges to play poohsticks on and a handy eagle soaring overhead for part of the walk :). I do have photos but again they will have to wait, very frustratingly still have no internet signal on the mifi 🙁
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Back to the van we drove across the road to Gairloch Pier which is basically the place where all the wildlife cruises start from. There were loos with hot water though so I was able to wash my hair :). We had lunch there and debated what to do next, deciding to carry on in our planned direction.
We ended up driving further than expected (this is becomming a frequent happening!) and stopped briefly for a walk at Slatterdale Forest Trail before ending up at Beinn Eighe lochside carpark where we have stopped for the night.
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More to say but about to run out of mobile phone charge so will publish and fill in gaps tomorrrow.
I used to be driven to school drying my hair on the hot air blower 🙂
Comment by Michelle — 30 September 2011 @ 10:18 am