Summer of 2022 found us in the Outer Hebrides with my mum and dad. An amazing two weeks spent in one of our favourite places.
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Far too quickly our holiday in Bamburgh came to end. Having barely moved the car for a week, it was right we finished our holiday on the beach!
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The people sat round the pond ended up being the cheering crowd. It was like what I imagine the Colosseum would have been like. Ok, Ok, maybe not quite, but you get the idea.
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Having filled our faces with sausages, bacon, black pudding and the trimmings, we headed out for a walk on the beach. It was such an eerie walk, with people appearing out of, and disappearing into, the mist, as if from nowhere. Lyns’ nose however did not fail as she managed to sniff out a coffee shack in the gloom.
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So here we are, another summer and another summer holiday, although what a difference to any other year. Covid is still gripping the country, although no where near as badly has it had done so we booked a last minute trip to Northumberland to get a break away and spend some time on the beach. As it turned out, we only moved the car once and come rain or shine, we went to the beach, much to James’ delight.
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Week two of our holiday saw us heading to a very small Island in the Outer Hebrides, namely the Isle of Eriskay. Situated at the very southern tip of South Uist and only joined to Uist by a causeway in 2001 it is an absolutely stunning Island. The cottage we had booked was right on the beach, by the ferry port to Barra. We had several rush hours during the day, sometimes even seeing a dozen cars in one go! Other than that and one coach trip, we more or less had the place to ourselves.
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We were getting the ferry at 9am on the Saturday morning from Skye which meant leaving home around 11pm the night before. Lyns drove the first couple of hours and then I took over and drove through the night. It was an epic drive through the dark of night in the rain, especially once we arrived in Loch Lomond and it became single track roads. Luckily, by the time the sun was coming up we were driving into beautiful weather, such a shame that was one of the few days we got sunshine throughout the holiday. Not that it mattered.
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I had taken a week off work to use up some holiday from last year before I lost it so, as Lyns also had a few days off in her shift pattern, we decided to head up to Durham for a mini break. We had always wanted to visit the city, and as neither of us had ever been, we decided to go. It also meant that we could use our tickets to visit Beamish again.
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I did what any true Brit would do and rushed out into the pouring rain to help everyone back, ok ok no that is a lie and not what a true brit would do. What I actually did was jump in the queue for coffee before the bus load of tourists arrived there so everyone would have a hot drink to enjoy when they dashed back in. Shortly after a bedraggled Lyns, Granny, Grandad and James arrived, soaked through.
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I headed back to the house just in time for breakfast and what a breakfast it was. It had all come from Macleod’s in Stornoway and boy was it good. I tried white pudding for the first time and whilst it was nice, I will not be swapping my black pudding for it any time soon. I also tried beef sausages and they were amazing. I will be hunting some of these bad boys out when I get home.
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By this point the wind was difficult to stand in and the rain was horizontal, but not particularly cold. After lunch I headed out to take a few pictures, but the weather was not helpful and after soaking everything, camera included I gave up.
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