Serendipity...serendipitous...
[music]
Hello! Yes a return to the old style vlogs. We are on our way to the Outer
Hebrides, and as many of you know we will be
making a series called 'How to Hebrides' which will be sponsored by Adria UK. But
we're not quite ready to even start filming that yet, we're still on mainland.
We've had a brilliant couple of weeks at Culloden Moor Caravan and Motorhome Club
Site near Inverness and now we are on our way to Ullapool where we're going
to get the ferry over to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis.
So as we don't really have a vlog for you planned
I thought we'll just take you along for the journey. Normally when we go to the
Hebrides we take the road through Fort William and up through Invergarry
Kyle of Lochalsh across the Isle of Skye - to Big - and then across to Tarbert or
Lochmaddy, Whereas today we're gonna go as I said
via Ullapool and Stornoway. I don't think I've taken you that way yet, at
least not in this direction, so I'll take you along for the journey. We just
stopped for breakfast at Rogie Falls; we're not actually gonna walk to the
Falls because obviously we've got to rush for a ferry, but we're gonna have a quick bite
to eat and then we're gonna head through on up to Ullapool, hey Dougal? Oh do
look a bit more excited, thank you! He's excited really, really he's excited on
the inside.
[music]
So we've made it to Ullapool in good time, and good timing because here's our ride!
[wind and ambient noise]
You know, as soon as you start approaching the Hebrides, magic starts
happening. As soon as we pulled up in the car park at Ullapool ready to board
there was a knock at the door. My friend Stephen - a lot of you are know Stephen
and Karla - knocked at the door. I had no idea Stephen and Karla were
even going to the Outer Hebrides, let alone were happened to be booked on the
same ferry as me! Pure and utter coincidence... what I prefer to call
Hebridean Magic. Karla writes a blog all about accessible caravanning so I
shall link to Karla's blog in the description below.
I don't know how quickly she's going to write up her Hebridean adventure
but it will be there no doubt a week or two after I put this vlog up. So yeah, I
mean we haven't even got on the ferry yet and the Hebridean magic has
started. "Give us a wave, Stephen! Were we planning on booking the same ferry, did
we even know?" [Stephen] No! We booked ours months ago. [Andrew] And I booked mine the other day, no idea you're even coming to the
Hebrides. But Dougal's pleased!
[Stephen] He's much softer in real life, he really is.
[Andrew] And he does smile sometimes
Right, so I've just packed my bag for the ferry, got some water for Dougal, wallet, notebook all that kind of thing. It's only a two and a half
hour crossing from Ullapool to Stornoway and we're just gonna start
boarding!
[music]
[Andrew] What's your name? [Jane] Jane from Minnesota Jane Jane Jane from Minnesota.
[Andrew] Dougal making friends on the ferry! What do you reckon Dougal? Give Jane a kiss!
[Jane] You want a biscuit? I don't have a biscuit!
[music]
So here we are, we made it! Isle of Lewis, Eilean Leòdhais mo Ghraidh. It's just a bit
windy out there so I thought it best to close the vlog inside so you can hear me
over all the wind noise. Such a surprise to see Stephen and Karla on the ferry
but that is Hebridean serendipity... serendipity.... so that's a nice Hebridean
coincidence! Bit of a rough crossing though, it's not normally that rough, but
I was glad we were coming Ullapool Stornoway on the the Loch Seaforth. It's
one of the newest large ferries that Calmac has, and it copes very well in
that kind of weather. So it was just a little journey for you today, not much...
not much sort of action, not much happening, but we have now got to get our
heads down and start writing and preparing and filming for our series 'How
to Hebride's which is kindly sponsored by Adria UK. Hopefully we'll be in a
position to start that next week when you watch this, if not it will be in two
weeks but bear with us if there's a bit of a delay. Either way I hope you enjoyed
coming with us today to the Isle of Lewis to the beautiful Outer Hebrides.
I can't stop smiling... there is some... there is an undeniable sense of Home when I
come to this place, but you all know that anyway. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed coming
with us, if you did you know what to do - give us a thumbs up, subscribe if you
don't already, it just leaves me to say from Dougal and from me...
Thanks for tuning in!
Dougal, are you happy to be back in the
Outer Hebrides? Are you happy to be in the Hebrides? Are you happy to be in
the Hebrides? Are you...? Are you...? Are you happy to be here...?
He never smiles.
[music]
you