Seven weeks of fulltime TEFL later and at long
last, I’m back blogging. Tadaima!
Fifteen hours of travel got us from Lewes, East Sussex to Thurso, Caithness yesterday. That's 730 miles, or 1200 km, which included a £149.60 taxi ride from Inverness (no, we didn’t pay!) and now as I write we are waiting at Scrabster ferry terminal for
the 8.45 boat to Orkney.
Why? Oh, why? Because my pirate trilogy is called The Chronicles of Orphir, and Orphir is here, in Orkney.
I have learned little of pirates so far – but I now know a few other things thanks to the company we kept on our epic taxi ride. Our driver informed us that simultaneously eating a Malteser whilst imbibing Scottish whisky is highly
recommended, that the monument to Lord Sutherland inspires very mixed feelings in
the locals, and that a recent rockfall on the A9 caused traffic chaos for five months, so that
the local kids had to be rowed to school because of the 230-mile diversion via
road ...
I have also learned that after travelling the length of the
country, a portion of cheesy chips and coleslaw really hits the spot. Time for
bed now, night.
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