0550 alarm goes.
Dressed breakfast strip beds dishes final check
0650 lock the door and walk to the ferry
It's cold and a bright stripe of orange is across the eastern horizon as we walk to the Hope. 
0720 board the Pentalina 
A grand crossing, flat as flat can be
Moon is still high above Dunnet Head as we land
0918 board the bus to Wick, via a deserted John o Groats.
0955 Wick. Alexander Bain for breakfast and Wi-Fi.. .poor Tom has been deprived ( bar an hour at Stromness library)
Then a potter with the camera around Wick in the sunshine. 
1234 Train leaves Wick. To Thurso, Forsinard, Helmsdale,  Brora, Lairg et al. 
1704 Inverness. Chippy search and liquid intake.

1856 Train for Embra departs. More Iain Sinclair The Last London reading.

2223 arrive Edinburgh. A quick dash up Waverley steps 

2232 the 19 arrives.

2309 and home....

The views over the flow country were enticing for me, less so for those engaged with FIFA13 for the DS...