Blogtober Sixteen

Homeward bound.

Quite a relaxed start to the day as we were already at the airport. My last transit through Birmingham had been a nightmare: the place was rammed, there were folk everywhere; the carrier did not have a check-in desk open; and queues to get into the queue for the lift to take everyone to Security. This time we were taking no chances and headed to check-in a full three hours before our flight. Consequently, there were no queues, we breezed through everywhere and had a v-e-r-y lazy breakfast.

This past week has been our Summer. Orkney had not been this warm for this many consecutive days all year, so as we boarded our plane to Inverness, I took a snap of the blue skies.

Once back in the Highlands, we had a brief visit to Dunelm to pick up some cutlery that couldn't be shipped to Orkney (because... knives) and then it was a couple of hours drive through Autumn to the port of Scrabster.

The sea crossing to Stromness was a little lumpy, courtesy of the gale which hit the north west of Scotland recently, but soon enough we were disembarking and making the short journey to home. I risked a look at the current temperature in Orkney...

Oh, it feels good to be back blogging on a laptop! Tomorrow I promise I will look at all the comments that I have missed and I will catch up on my reading list.