End of a very long hot day, the tour goes on.

To my new digs for tonight. It doesn't look promising.

1. Sitting in this area at your own risk. From what? Splinters? Poor service?

2. A pint of well earned Best. The menu did not look great so I went to the bar to search the 'specials'. They had 'Smothered Chicken', I enquired if that was how it met its end, but he explained that it was a chicken breast smothered in B-B-Q sauce. 'Might not be too bad' I thought, until he added that then it got covered in grated cheese. In a panic I opted for the steak and ale pie.

3. The steak and ale pie. It was every bit as bad as it looks. I don't know what hotels do to carrots but it should be against the Geneva Convention.

4 - 6 'But what of Nairn?' I hear you earnestly cry. Well I can report that it is mainly boarded up. The great north-east glass shortage worsens.

7. More Mealy! A mealy jimmy. No idea, and still tasting yesterdays mealy pie I had no desire to find out.

8. The finalists in the 'World's Most Uncomfortable Bed Contest' Although judging from the noises coming through the walls as I type, the foreign couple in the next room are finding their bed far more agreeable.  I don't speak german but 'Ja, das ist super' I can guess.

9. Bored over my steak pie and smothered carrot I have been messing about with my camera settings. And I can't get the fecker back to normal. Tomorrows blip might be a little 'jazzy'.

On top of that had a call to say the good lady wife has pranged our other vehicle.

Time to pull the duvet over my head and await a new day.

Fort William! Bring it on!!