A full programme

We’ve received our package for our Scottish holiday. It includes the programme of activities. I read them out to Linda, our home help, while she was here yesterday. She was astounded by how much there was to do.

“You’ll be exhausted doing all that,” she exclaimed. I couldn’t help agreeing with her.

“That was part of the problem with the Netherlands holiday,” I explained. “We came back so exhausted it was difficult to also appreciate the holiday fully at the time.”

She had to admit, though, all the trips sounded interesting. She, like us, would prefer a holiday with plenty of things to do, rather than one just sat around a pool or on a beach.

We do get one day to just mooch around Nairn, where we will be staying. And this time, the hotel is in the centre of town, so if we don’t feel like going on the arranged trips, we can just have another day of mooching, with something worth looking at.  From a guidebook I took out of the library, I gather we may be lucky enough to see dolphins from the beach. That would be something worth looking at.

Meanwhile we just continue to get excited as we look forward to the trip. It’s nice to be going on a holiday for which we don’t have to worry about airport security, long train journeys changing station midway, changing currency, learning a few foreign words, a long drive done by us, being careful of how much we drink because of the need to drive later. I’m just hoping the famed Scottish midges aren’t on the attack at the time.