Monday 3
October 2005
Bow Bar Or Bust My hosts are wonderful, letting me use the
computer for hours to try to sort out flights and such, and offering whatever
other support they can. I leave Plockton at about noon and drive five hours
straight to Edinburgh, up beautiful and empty Glen Shiel, and then up achingly
poignant Glencoe, veiled by sun-tinged mist. I gobble the last of my cheese and
crackers as I pass over desolate Rannoch Moor, and am not hungry when I get to
Edinburgh, so I skip dinner. I want very badly to go to the Bow Bar, especially
since I don’t know if I’ll be back. I spend a quiet few hours there with pints
of Landlord and a couple of glasses of whisky. My flight is in the morning, at 10:20, and a long and sad
journey is ahead; but tonight, just for a little while, I can sit in a familiar
place and take some small comfort in a good dram.
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