15th July. Caledonian MacBrayne.

One last debasement for the stomach on the 6 am car ferry to Ullapool - 'The Full Scottish' as opposed to the 'Full English'.

This differentiation can only be justified by the additional calories in the black pudding?

It's very unusual for Isabelle to pass up the opportunity of black pudding, the reason of course is sleep.

I'd boasted that once up there was no desire on my part to go back to the land of nod, however, after walking around the boat a few times in the rain I came to the conclusion there was nothing else to do for three and a half hours.

By then all the good spaces had been taken.