Gentle breeze
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Last night's news showed several caravans on their sides at a site by Loch Lomond and reports of several campervans overturned on Skye - hope all the people are ok.
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It was on GMB this morning for about 2 seconds so obviously they do not regard it as news?
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Och that was just a gentle breeze, we've had worst. At least the house wasn't shaking this time. Electric stayed on surprisingly. Burn through the garden was flowing well.
Haven't downloaded my weather station yet so not sure of actual gusts. We're on the west side and the wind was blowing directly at us. Large ship in the bay taking shelter.
Did venture out in the car and it wasn't too bad. Had a problem though getting the gates to stay open onto our driveway when coming back. The wind kept blowing one shut and last thing I needed was it closing as I drive through. Had a hard time pushing it open and then wedge it with a rock. Got in car and gunned it up the driveway. Then down to shut the gates. All this in pouring rain.
I know the area where vans etc tip over in the wind as we've seen it happen. We were wondering how many of those camper vans were rented by people who don't have much of a clue about driving them.
Tesco's delivers to the Island and we were due to get a collection today but got a message last night that due to 'technical problems' our order for today was cancelled. Wind related...no idea!
Had to spend and arm and a leg at the Co-op this morning in Portree instead. Lots of damaged trees by the side of the roads on the way. Potholes are getting deeper.
Today sunny but still a stiff breeze.
Haven't downloaded my weather station yet so not sure of actual gusts. We're on the west side and the wind was blowing directly at us. Large ship in the bay taking shelter.
Did venture out in the car and it wasn't too bad. Had a problem though getting the gates to stay open onto our driveway when coming back. The wind kept blowing one shut and last thing I needed was it closing as I drive through. Had a hard time pushing it open and then wedge it with a rock. Got in car and gunned it up the driveway. Then down to shut the gates. All this in pouring rain.
I know the area where vans etc tip over in the wind as we've seen it happen. We were wondering how many of those camper vans were rented by people who don't have much of a clue about driving them.
Tesco's delivers to the Island and we were due to get a collection today but got a message last night that due to 'technical problems' our order for today was cancelled. Wind related...no idea!
Had to spend and arm and a leg at the Co-op this morning in Portree instead. Lots of damaged trees by the side of the roads on the way. Potholes are getting deeper.
Today sunny but still a stiff breeze.
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Our Australian friends who stayed with us a couple of weeks ago are now on their massive UK and Ireland tour. See:
forums.practicalcaravan.com
Some years back they came over. To get home the took a cruise from Rome to Singapore. They hoped to tick Petra (Jordan), of the bucket list en-route. But large stormed put payed to that.
This time they hoped to tick off another site. The Giant’s Causway. Storm Floris stopped that.
Just no luck.
John
Touring Britain and Ireland by coach.
We have friends visiting from Australia in July. This will be their 3rd visit and we are looking forward to it. They will be with us for a week before going back to London to start a tour. Then will have another week in Germany. Just looking at their itinerary made me tired. What do others...
Some years back they came over. To get home the took a cruise from Rome to Singapore. They hoped to tick Petra (Jordan), of the bucket list en-route. But large stormed put payed to that.
This time they hoped to tick off another site. The Giant’s Causway. Storm Floris stopped that.
Just no luck.
John
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I was (still am) on a cruise ship that left Greenock for Iceland on Sunday night.
It was a bit "lively" overnight once we cleared the Firth of Clyde and headed North through it.
It was a bit "lively" overnight once we cleared the Firth of Clyde and headed North through it.
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One of the worst storms at sea I have encountered was between Cape Town and Robben Island back in the early seventies. Land was less than 5km away, but most of the time we could not even see Table Mountain as we went into a trough. Area is not known as the Cape of Storms for nothing and over 500 shipwrecks in Table bay are testament to that saying.
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I had work to do there for a company called Olivetti and no I never met or saw the man! 🤣Why were you going to Robben Island ?
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