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Thursday : Rain
Getting a good run of sleep ins. 3:30am I got woken up by a bloke scrummaging around the room for an hour with a torch getting ready to go for a hike. He totally Should of been packed the night before and why have a shower a 4am? Extraordinary lack of efficiency from a German. It took me ages to get back to sleep after that. He would of had a shocking walk too, the rain and wind started shortly after he left. It was nice to listen to the wind and rain on the roof, rather than him snoring.
I met Kim just before 8 after being woken up by a screaming child being washed in the bathroom next door, and
the look on her face was priceless! She was dealing with the other child in the dining room asking everybody questions in gibberish. Kim is not the person to be asking questions in the morning, especially in gibberish!
We Had to fight for space in the kitchen again while cooking breakfast, we then scoffed it down quick smart and were gone like the wind. Much like the midges were because the wind was really strong today.
Real shame, absolutely gutted we thought the stay here was going to be the highlight, and it most likely would of been, except for the family. Its weird because I like kids, well some kids. I think we had just had enough of them lately, and we were just not expecting to see any in that particular place.
Leaving probably worked out for the best, because the weather had changed big time, with the strong winds and heavy rain, the lochs had a swell going! So even if we stayed we wouldn't be able to go for walk in this weather, we would had to contend for space inside the hostel.
Once in the car we had a fair amount of single track road through the highlands till we got to the highway. Which would take us to John O Groats the further most north point on mainland Great Britain. We had a good break there, had a nice lunch in the car out of the wind and rain looking out to the faintly visible Orkney islands. There was a silly setup there though. To have a picture of yourself standing under the John O Groats sign, you have to pay £2.50. For that price you get a bloke to come out from his little hut and take one photo using your own camera. He's not even in a kilt! b******s to that, we stood outside the chained off area and did a selfy.
Then we set the GPS to Aviemore just south of Inverness in the Cairngorms National Park. We had a very good run down to the hostel, it rained the entire way. Its a really nice coastal road, passing loads of cliffs and through heaps of farms. The cloud was much thicker up in the mountains on the way back too, probably could only see 50-70m in front.
We checked in to the hostel that definitely was a nursing home, and then made our dinner. No fighting in this kitchen trying to cook and cleanup, it was much bigger than the last. It had five gas cookers and six sinks. after getting ready for bed we relaxed by playing some cards and watching some TV.
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