Portavadie - slightly odd

JumbleDuck said:
We stayed there for a couple of nights in late July and ate two dinners and a breakfast in the restaurant. The staff were efficient and friendly at all times, without a faff to be seen.
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it all looked very smooth to me - the showers re stunning.

I am now at Kip where I will be overwintering.

600 boats - what a bunna of a place

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and a veery weird sculpture

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I will be hitching back to Plockton tomorrow -

Glasgow, Loch Lomand, Tyndrum, Fort William, Kyle of Lochalsh.

so if you do pass an elderly hitch hiker witth a life jaxcket over his shoulder.....

D
 
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The last time we holed up in Portavadie (early 1980s) the locals were fishing with dynamite at 2AM .. that's a hell of a wake-up call.
 
dylanwinter said:
I am now at Kip where I will be overwintering.


I will be hitching back to Plockton tomorrow -

Glasgow, Loch Loman, Tyndrum, Fort William, Kyles of Lochalsh.

so if you do pass an elderly hitch hiker witth a life jaxcket over his shoulder.....

D
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Dylan, I know you really appreciate it when I put you right about Scottish place-name usage ....

"Narrows" is plural, but "strait" and it's Gaelic-derived equivalent "kyle" are singular, so it should be "Kyle of Lochalsh" if you are referring to the village or "Kyle of Loch Alsh" if you are referring to the narrows themselves. (It is common for the settlement called after a body of water to be written as one word: "Lochsomething", while the body of water is "Loch Something".) The "Kyles of Bute" are plural, but that is because there are two of them, East and West.

For the sake of completeness, I should draw your attention to the spelling of Loch (and Ben) Lomond. (I expect you were thinking about Death of a Salesman.)
 
steve yates said:
Bloody hell, that picture of kip marina, not much room left in there is there? If I make it back down as far as the firth of Clyde, that's one port to scratch off I think!
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An image set in a photograph does not consign the real place to be forever identical to the photograph (-;

I am quite sure that Scottish Marinas are not running waiting lists at the moment, could be wrong on that, but it was not my impression recently when launching my boat after 2 years ashore.
 
When I rang to see if I could book a place for the Kip boat show because I wanted to see one of the exhibitors, I was told to ring when I'm 15 mins away and they would probably fit me in!

Not very reassuring when I'll be 25 miles from my mooring by the time i'm 15 mins away from Kip.

I can always tie up to the tanker jetty and finish the trip in the dinghy :)
 
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agurney said:
A saying involving glass houses and stones springs to mind..
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Well spotted. It is a fundamental law of the internet that any post purporting to correct grammar or spelling must contain an error of its own. I was honestly trying to be helpful about place names, though.
 
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