JC and Islay Day Seven

Day Seven (Wednesday)

Another long day of traveling, but once again get to see some of the incredible beauty that God has to offer.  The plan for the day was to drive 2+ hours to London Heathrow, drop the rental car off, and then fly up to Glasgow and then to Islay.  

Always sad to say goodbye, but Weymouth was such a great host.  Our Airbnb was very friendly, and the owners were very kind.  It had rained before we got on the road at seven, so the streets were wet, but it wasn’t raining, just the spray from the road.  The traffic wasn’t bad, and we had no issues returning the car.  Other than that we didn’t put petrol into it.  Because the queues were too long because of the gas shortage (perceived.)

We arrived at Heathrow airport way too early, but we weren’t sure if we needed to do more COVID testing or not, so we errored on having more time than rushing it.  We didn’t, and so we chilled for a while.  Not a big deal – had breakfast and read.

The flight to Glasglow was non-eventful.  So we landed around 2 pm and as we exited the plane, we noticed that all the gate areas were empty.  So we walked to all of the gates, and all of the stores were closed up, no vending machines, and most of all, no people.  But finally, we saw a security guard and asked him, and he led us to an area away from the gates but had pubs and stores and most of all people.

This trip is becoming a rainbow trip.  We saw a few on the Jurassic Coast, but there was one at the Glasglow airport, and this one Katy took from her seat on the flight to Islay.  Like I said earlier, God is showing his beauty.

Islay is very small, and it was the quickest time to get our rental car.  All I did was show my driver’s license, and I had the keys before the luggage was ready.  Our house has a great view and is very spacious.   We kept it simple last night and had an excellent diner and then surprisingly met two young kids (well, at least they were born in the ’80s) and had a wonderful time talking about life and having lots of laughs until the pub closed around 11 pm.