The planned visit from the Dows was super: we walked the length and breadth of the town, saw Proncess Margaret arrive at the Town Hall, met another 'highland warrior' at Inverness Castle overlooking the river, and had two superb meals (thanks to helpful restaurant research carried out in Inverness Public Library), and a visit aboard Vega for our routine 'evening prayers'! We were so grateful for the visit, a real mark of the long and valued friendship we enjoy w...

Four miles further down the canal iunder a grey and drizzly sky and through the last locks before the Sea lock brought us to Seaport Marina in Muirtown Basin, on the outskirts of Inverness. We had spent some time on the mobile over the previous few days trying to work out where we could leave Vega for a period until Cath's surgery etc was over and we could plan to move on and complete our planned circumnavigation. Seaport came up with an offer, but subject to s...