Daily Archives: 19 Aug 2017
Colourful John O’Groats
Can you imagine our mood? Dina reads aloud at the breakfast table with haggis and porridge (without whisky today) that John O’Groats is an awful place, grey and ugly. Better make a detour except one wants to take the ferry to the Orkneys like us. Other travelers agreed. Actually we already knew that Britain’s famous northern outpost was shamed being voted the most dismal place in Scotland.
“People use to delegate their seeing as well as their judgments to the travel guides” is our dear Master’s commentary crudely mumbled with a full mouth.
Ach du liebes Lieschen, Dina liest uns morgens bei Haggis und Porridge ohne Whisky im Hotel vor, John O’Groats sei hässlich, grau und unbesuchenswert, außer man möchte zu den Orkneys wie wir. Andere Reisende schlossen sich dieser Meinung an. Dass John O’Groats als hässlichster Ort Schottlands gewählt wurde, hatten wir schon gehört, aber all das konnte unsere…
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GWA8: following Huron
From the pages of tugster: a waterblog
Although I’m a newbie, this being only my second run on Huron, I suspect this view dominates the experience of crossing Huron, possibly Superior also, which I’ve not traversed. Huron is the inland sea with the longest shoreline, surrounded by sparse population. Sarnia, the largest city on Huron has about 70,000; Port Huron, 30,000; and Alpena, 10,000. Of course, Bay City–population 35,000– lies there also, but at more than 50 miles into Saginaw Bay, it’s a city you go to as a destination, which I need to do soon. I’m eager to visit all the towns along this lake.
Off to starboard, it’s Thunder Bay, China-built, Seawaymax.
To port, it’s barge Menominee pushed by
Olive L. Moore. If you look at no other link than this one in this post, check this one for the evolution of this tug since the hull was first laid down in Manitowoc…
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