Monday 27 May

What a night! The wind got up to storm force from the south with heavy rain showers. Although parked nose into wind we were still rocked about enough to make sleep difficult and it did not ease off for several hours. Fortunately neither we, nor any of our neighbours, suffered any damage but it summed up for us the feature about this holiday – the unrelenting wind.

Our plan today to find somewhere to service the van, having been “off-grid” for 3 or 4 days, and wend our way back down to Tarbert. With the sun now shining brilliantly again we said farewell to what we thought was the most attractive part of the islands and re-joined civilisation.

A quick stop in Tarbert for bread and milk – it seems the Sabbath doesn’t extend to Bank Holiday Monday – then, mainly to get some shelter from the wind (again), booked into a small site about 6 miles south. Although not Caravan Club standard, it has full facilities so we’ll get ourselves together again ready for the next stage of the trip, the Isle of Skye.