Back from Skye

If you haven't been, then you must go. Stunning.

Great training exercise...of a sort. Well you need to let yourself recover sometimes. Managed one run of roughly one hour. The rest of the time was Beer, food, Beer, walking, Beer, cards, Beer and talking a load of old toot. We also managed to visit a couple of breweries which was nice. It was good to spend a relaxing weekend with our chums Paul and Marie Ann Walker.

The drive up allowed Pauline and myself to drop in on good friend and WHW Babe, Ellen Thomson in Cove. It was smashing to catch up with Ellen. We were running late but still stayed much longer than we should as we were having such a nice time. Laura's tea also made it difficult to drag ourselves out.

While there, Ellen passed on her Mountain Marathon rucsac that will probably be my ever present companion in Spain. Last Helly Hansen T-Shirt showed up over the weekend, Pauline organised the Travel Insurance, so, I am only waiting on converter plugs and some 'over the counter' drugs and we are good to go.

Arthur, having recovered from his old age aches and pains (his words) has still to get a few minor things together, eg rucksack, sleeping bag, T-shirts, trousers, money etc but hey, he is going and that is what he cares about.

Later Dudes