The ferry journey to the Isle of Lewis was uneventful, and after a couple of hours, we were disembarking in Stornaway, the island’s capital. As it was mid-evening, and so we had phoned ahead to the local Indian restaurant and ordered a curry (our other national dish here in Scotland!) which we collected and headed west to our campsite in Shawbost.
We woke on our first morning, and I pulled up the blind and lay watching the clouds scudding past high above. I then suddenly realised that something was odd about the sun, and it was then that I realised that I was witnessing a partial solar eclipse!