Orkney, UK
Today I visited two of the smaller inhabited islands. Although the day had dawned wet, it was dry by the time I left after an early breakfast to enable me to catch the ferry. At the Tingwall Terminal I left The Minx in the car park and walked onto the ferry just as it started raining.
The ferry first stopped at Rousay, where everyone else disembarked. 15 minutes later I walked onto the island of Egilsay in near horizontal rain and, I suspect, the ferry crew were...