Bev and her Dad both Fit Bits, which record steps taken each day amongst other useless things, well being as we do more or less the same each day the results should be similar, Bev is repeatedly recording 50% more than FIL, the only difference seems to be driving in the Terryvan or ours, it would appear a Mercedes chassis takes out more of the bumps
Terry, you do him a favour and all he does is moan ..........It should do, it cost 5k for air suspension!
Feel free to add it to the Itineo......
Cheers. We have done Islay and Mull and of course skye but would like to go further out another time. Still got dumfries and galloway to do properly too.Ours is 8m, the pricing goes up in pretty big bands, but 6m - 8m are all the same price, cost us £57 single, but the return fare is exactly double so no real point booking the return and IMO the multi crossing tickets do not offer enough value to bother with they are more or less the sum of all the crossing they include and they want you to more or less commit to crossing dates at time of booking
Options route wise, direct to Harris (Tarbert) either Ullapool or Uig (Skye) second is about half the crossing time at 1 hour 40 minutes and about 2/3 the price, it is also our preference
You can go from Oban on to the Uists then drive up, worth seeing the Uists when you are over, we are crossing down to them in a couple of days then returning to Uig from North Uist
It is not for everyone, but if you like big scenery and nature this is the place to come to
David, I know the problem with the Fit bits.............Bev i turning the steering wheel back and forth, changing gear and a few waves to others in passing places.Bev and her Dad both Fit Bits, which record steps taken each day amongst other useless things, well being as we do more or less the same each day the results should be similar, Bev is repeatedly recording 50% more than FIL, the only difference seems to be driving in the Terryvan or ours, it would appear a Mercedes chassis takes out more of the bumps
) that I carry 2 spares in my man drawer, one of them has broken just sat in the drawer 
Terry, you do him a favour and all he does is moan ..........
Callanish is a great place ...... especially when you think of what they charge to go near Stonehenge !! And you get such a feeling of awe when you stand and look round.
You only say that because you know you still owe me the money for the bike rack I saved for you, despite having people queuing up to buy it.Sorry to pick you up on a point here David but under "Rule 1" you really shouldn't call @peterc10 a picky little sod,
..................That's my job............ Peter, you picky little sod.
Little I agree with, although I prefer svelte.This still isn't a moan Peter, just my style of writing you picky little sod
. I have now ordered your special water from Harrods for next time though.
-Hope FIL appreciates it
Thought there was some funny ritual with beans and machines. Mind I don't like coffee - not even the smell. I don't drink tea either so it's me that's really the fussy duck.
we are heading up in a couple of weeks as well,we may bump into each otherEnjoying your blog. It's making us think of our trip up there last year and the year before! So much to see. We've been lucky and had no midges and lovely weather both times.
We're also heading up in the next couple of weeks for 17 days.
We can't wait, we're hoping we will drop lucky with the weather again.
I've got a Fitbit 1 , I don't know if Bevs and your dad have the same sort. If they have , and they are getting totally different mileages and steps , but doing roughly the same. It must be the settings.
Have they set their fitbits to their own pace ,walking , running length and is it correct.
If ones on the factory setting or ones been done to the wrong pace length that could be why.
Though I doubt you care one fig !
But it may stop one more niggling conversation disagreement on an evening.
so went for second option which was further down the road I thought the first was on anyway, but right at the end. So we go back to 'how far are we going?' 'it seems a very long way' 'what will it be when we get there? all with constant reminders of the site he had seen between each bit of the grilling) beach view to overnight and see out the storm 
Oh my Laird, 'funny' just isn't enough for that oneWell david what some of us would like to know , is this male bonding session between you and Fil ,going to become an annual event?
morning all, a few more photos, starting with proof that the sun doesn't always shine, I only got out for long enough to take one shot of the lighthouse at Butt of Lewis, for nicer ones see @Ralph-n-Bev thread, it's always sunny for them
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last night, had a debate with in laws, 'we will be happy to stop over wherever you would' that is till we pull up on the quayside at Stornoway, when FIL almost immediately says we passed a camp site sign back a bit can we go there? Nope, not for now at least I have promised myself fish and chips, what a delight they were, Camerons on Point Street, yum. we are back there later today, might just have some more
Back to FIL, 'mum doesn't want to stop here next to the sheep' well we like rural, but these were on a triple decker sheep lorry, so I sort of saw her point, but wasn't prepared to go to the site he reminded me about again
But I did have a location in mind, trouble is it is getting dark, and my memory isn't what it was
So we pull into here, in fairness the photos were taken this morning as it was too dark and starting to rain
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parked exactly as in the photo above, FIL immediately says, 'aren't we parked the wrong way round?' well I really didn't know quite what to say, in fairness the views of the hill behind are not that bad either
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no I should add by 'we' FIL was referring to his Terryvan, I was driving ours, and Bev had parked alongside me (us, me and FIL), so after a deep breath and a pause I said, I really would have thought this was fine and we would always chose to face the sea. But if you want to be the other way round get out and talk to your daughter. Then promptly took Lola for a walk down to the beach to escape
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walking back I spot FIL on his way down to beach, but before he spots me, so I veer off left dodge behind some dunes and carry on back. On arrival Bev says 'what was all that about?' 'all what say I?', really not having a clue Bev - 'why did you tell Dad to see me about which round to park?'
Oh Please!- if I argue I am wrong, ignore even worse, now suggesting he sorts it out himself isn't right AAAAAAAGGGHHHH
I then explained to Bev that as we pulled in FIL had said to me I thought we would park the other way round, to which Bev replied to me why would we do that? Are you keeping up, if not go back to top and start again, then when we meet next tell what happened
As you can see we stayed as parked, and first thing this morning had sun streaming through the front where I had intentionally left the blinds open, as we usually do when somewhere so remote to make best of views with almost zero chance of anybody being anywhere near let alone right in front of the window. another query for FIL to that as well, but that I kind of understand, he just thinks we are wrong, different maybe, not wrong
I meant to add some detail the other day on a thread about the weather, FIL has twice sailed with a friend to the channel isles, this means he knows more about anything to do with ships than anybody else, hence the need for us to shelter on the east of the island due to the winds. If anybody maritime related saw him wrap a rope like he does his mains cable (elbow and shoulder) so it had become a spiral of wire, which even when I explained why not to he didn't get. Any casual involvement he has had makes him an expert, god help anybody he meets with a motorhome in future
Now shopping in Stornoway, had a lovely breakfast in the first floor café / restaurant overlooking the harbour, then off to Tarbert for the Harris Tweed shop, a peep into the new distillery next door, then off to find a semi sheltered (west facing
Crossing to the Uists tomorrow, but only if the winds have dropped, not even sure if they are sailing today
Hi David don't forget I turn off one of the bottles so it gives me notice that one is empty --There should be enough to last you a fortnight even with heating on 24/7BTW, I now know the only LPG outlet on the western isles is in Stornoway and it hasn't worked for months, so fill before coming over. Uig the port to here from Skye has LPG, so we will be filling on way back. Despite an absolute assurance that they are not leaving heating on, and only putting water on when needed, plus fridge and gas hob only for coffee we have cooked everything, they have consumed a full bottle of gas. However you may recall the difficulty we had up and down and clockwise / anti clockwise relating to the heating controls on day 1
-I used less than 14 ltrs over 5 days /4 nights 24/7 over the new year and it was bloody cold outside -toasty warm/hot inside
Hi David. .. I filled up with lpg in stornoway. ..the first garage was out of commission. ..but they directed me to a second garage not far away and their pump was working...
Well david what some of us would like to know , is this male bonding session between you and Fil ,going to become an annual event?
, then every f&&cking loyalty card with last time used , then followed by an extra list of those they had left at home
Hi David don't forget I turn off one of the bottles so it gives me notice that one is empty --There should be enough to last you a fortnight even with heating on 24/7
, all they have done is hot water, boiled kettles and little heating
is only about 10yds behind us and horizontal rain
err... why not?why me??
and it was nothing to do with me well sort of
, so today I said, it is important for your safety (yeah right, but it sounds good) that you must use the step, and by the way you fUUkwit (thought not said I hope again) the pocket is broken where you use it to climb out, now she takes sides and tells him to use the FUUking step like David said, although of course Bev didn't swear at him either, I put that in for effect and to ease my own frustration Join us or log in to post a reply.
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