Saturday, August 7, 1999
The Plan:
SightSee
Reality:
Mostly cloudy with some sun and frequent
rain
07:00 wake up and read
07:30 get up
08:00 breakfast: toast, corn flakes, egg,
bacon
08:45 wander around town looking for
launderette
we spotted yesterday
09:05 found it, it opens at 10
09:06 return to room to read
10:00 launderette, leave laundry
10:10 board 10:30 train Inverness-Wick
snack on BBQ flavour crisps
12:36 debark at Dunrobin Castle Station
(disused)
in drizzle
12:40 enter Dunrobin Castle £5.5 each
12:41 Yes,
they've got loos!
12:52 seen enough of the inside, let's go
outside
13:00 seen enough of the outside, time to
return to station
13:18 catch
13:16 Dunrobin
Castle-Inverness
2 minutes late
snack on prawn cocktail flavour crisps
and Sprite
15:19 arrive
in Inverness
15:30 H.R.H.'s favourite burger joint: rodeo
cheeseburger, fries, Sprite.
15:50 pick up laundry before 16:00 closing
16:00 room, finish "The night of 400
rabbits",
snooze
18:05 walk to Dickens Restaurant
18:20 order Pork Cordon
Bleu, chips, lemonade
19:00 yummy, £32 for two
19:30 return to room
begin "Summer of the dragon"
by Elizabeth Peters
21:30 sleep