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Ah, eventhough I’ve been home for a couple of days already, I still owe this faithful blog an update on the things that happened in the last couple of days in Scotland. haha, I’m ashamed to say that I have to dig down for it a bit 
Dear Allison tought me how to knit and by this time I’ve already knitted two hats (one for Will and one for Sandra, my subrenter) and a pair of fingerless gloves. woohoo! I still had my stupid cold so no real hiking for me unfortunatly. Had a nice day with Luke, Will and Allison in Portree where we had lunch in cafe Ariba where they have the BEST houmous in the north of Scotland. caramelised vegetable houmous, dried tomato houmous… hmmm after that we went yarn-shopping in Broadford and found a great second hand bookstore. amazing collection.
We generally had a couple of very relaxing days, hanging out by the fireplace or kitchen (which was my favourite spot) and sometimes having a beer or two at the pub. I had a cool night out with Will, Fab (from Pitlochry), Kate and Gordon (both tourguides for macb.) During this week I said my goodbyes to some of the tourguides/busdrivers like Ewen (had a crazy dance with him during my biginning days on Skye and met up with him again in Edinburgh and flash visits to Skye in between) and Neil (we had an intense relationship which consisted of feeding eachother new exciting chocolate (like chilli or orange spice) and him making me REAL coffee, saw him weekly the last 1,5 month) Lynn and Ruth I said goodbye to earlier in Edinburgh, those lasses are now in Thailand having a wicked time 
wednesday I went to Broadfort with William to a secondhand store for some clothes for the party. It was the rainiest day I’ve experienced in Scotland. Even our underwear was completely soaked (which makes for good conversation). we had fun though as we were walking by the roadside, being splashed upon by passing cars, and him teaching me opera-singing techniques. AND we found cool stuff for the party so hurrah!
Had a few rough days before the weekend, headache and very tired but a LOT of sleep fixed that for a bit and Sunday it was time for the big Skye staff party! theme: Safari crazyness! because of the bad weather almost no one showed up from the other hostels though… which on the one hand was too bad, but on the other, we were so comfortable with eachother that the party turned into complete madness!
Rich had made punch which seemed to make everyone slightly insane right away (for some reason Allison grabbed and squeezed my boob… out of the blue… two sips into the first drink, like wtf?). Luke came back that day after spending a couple of days in Edinburgh with his bonnie lass (cute girl) and looking like an oldfashioned safari hunter, complete with monoculairs, great!
Will was sporting the pretty gay but rooaaarrrw look as such:
And Rich had the whole safari-glamour-look going on:
Maz was the iraque safarie tourist and Allison very cute with ponytails (playing the stare and don’t smile game I guess):
Nicole, Allison, Kathy and me had just ripped up the animal-print clothes we bought and messed around with it.
more pics:
Nicole and Luke
Katy and Luke
Luke and Will
Me and Will
ah… and as the night proceeded we got into many pillowfights, twister competitions, dancing to Hanson, gay-offs (between Will, who isn’t gay, and a girl from Edinburgh), houmous fights, weird happenings in the loundry room (we’re dirty girls, we need to be washed!) and after a long long time Rich, Nicole and I fell asleep on top of eachother. magic!
And on the next day only Luke was really hungover. the rest of us were kind of fine actually! although cleaning was a bitch…
That monday was a day of rest, completely messed up tradition and had taco-tuesday that evening because I was leaving and packed my bag…
Tuesdaymorning I hugged everyone goodbye (snif…) and headed of with Rich to go hiking. We took a bus to Armadale, the ferry to Mallaig and got a ride to the place where we had to go which was close to Loch Ailort (which is about half an our from Fort William and Mallaig.
It was a GREAT walk up to the bothy we were going to spend the night in, although because of the rain, the first bit was kind of like walking up a waterfall. the rest of the way was very boggy so had to do a lot of jumping (me, Rich not so much since he’s about 35 cm taller than me… ) but the walk was beautiful.
Rich got some pics here when he took the walk alone:
we arrived at the bothy and met up with a guy who was also staying there. That evening the five of us played cards, ate quesedilla’s and drank wiskey with hot chocolate. The night though, was pretty cold so we kind of all had to snuggle up to stay warm, which was cosy
The following day we went looking for a beach, found it after climbing many a rock, crossing many a stream and filling our shoes with a lot of mud and water from the bog. it was beautiful though. so clean and pure… lovely! Rich and I had a swim at another small beach (cold but great!!!) walked back to the bothy, took our bags and started our hike back to the highway. wednesday was a beautiful day and the walk was yet again, awesome. At the highway I said goodbye to Rich (damn I hate doing that…) and promised him I’d make him a hat.
I got a lift from Rich’s friends to Fort William where I JUST missed my bus to Edinburgh so all in all, I arrived there around midnight. Hung out with John for a bit, said goodbye to people there and went to bed. the next day I met up with Gordon (driver), had lunch outside with a take-away potato and then… really had to go…
Sigh….
So here I am now, Sweet Sandra and Bram picked me up from the airport, of which I’m very grateful because I had expected no one to be there. I takes getting used to to be back… it changed me so much, and for the better! and I want to hang on to it with everything I got. This was the best thing I’ve ever done for myself, ever. and it won’t be the last time I travel. Barcelona’s next
cheers!!!
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