More photos from Wester Ross - oh, how lovely and cool it looks! At the moment, in Edinburgh, it's hot - 27C, evidently, which is over 80F - but not nearly as hot as London and the continent, which are over 90F or 30+C, argh. I do wish that Daughter 2 and her family didn't live down there - for many reasons, but at the moment I worry about them being in that heat.
There are many deserted beaches up north.
We visited Inverewe Gardens twice, once in dazzling sunshine...
and once in very light drizzle. It's beautiful in all weathers.
I don't think I realised that dogwoods were so lovely till I saw them recently in the Botanics.
There are lots of roads like this - single track, with passing places. This is fine when you can see ahead.
Lots of people come up here with unsuitably huge camper vans - they're not at all popular! But actually we saw very few of them on this trip.
The single track road to this beach had a lot of blind summits and corners, which was a bit stressful. One just has to hope that everyone's driving as slowly as one is oneself! However, we hardly met anyone on the way.
The beach is called Red Point. We went there on recommendations from other people who'd stayed in the cottage and filled in the visitors' book. When you park, you walk across a field and find yourself at the top of high, steep dunes - the sort you gallop joyfully down when you're young. But when you're not so young, you imagine broken ankles. But we got down more easily than we expected, and even better, up again.
Writing this is a displacement activity. We're having friends for the day tomorrow and I must go and cook - but it's hot! I am much more interested in flowers than I am in food.
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