Travelling overnight to Lewis had seemed a good idea, quite romantic even - a starry or perhaps moonlit night, through Glencoe and over the bridge to Skye then crossing the Little Minch at dawn. Breakfast on the ship....
The reality was somewhat different. A deluge of rain in the pitch black night. Flooded roads, road closed and a long diversion, car struck by a deer - smashed headlight, grill broken, dented bodywork (deer damaged too sadly, though it ran off) and we missed the ferry!
But next day....
WOW!