Wednesday 03/08/05

Day of predominantly sunny weather, although with quite a few showers in between as well as a lot of wind. Today sees the Carloway Show over on the Westside, but I've seen enough shows. In the evening, two young ladies arrive who are planning for two and one nights respectively. The first, a young Swiss lady, has spent the last month travelling the UK. She came up from Skye today. She arrived in London on July 7th, the day of the bomb attacks. This resulted in travel chaos, with locals asking the tourists for maps. The other lady was Swedish and arrived on her motorbike, having travelled from Berneray (N. Uist). She had been trawling the town for a room all evening. Malin told the story of the Swedish hurricane in which millions of trees had been destroyed. As wood is a major industry in Sweden, this ruined several people, some of whom subsequently committed suicide. Franzesca, the Swiss lassie, also speaks Swedish, so she can converse with Malin in her own language. A nice hot fire keeps things going until 10.30.