And Home

I’ve decided I could get a bit used to Stena Line Plus. Not so much on the HSS going out, but coming back this afternoon we were on a proper ferry rather than a floating shopping mall and the Stena Plus lounge not only had chairs that weren’t bolted to the floor but it had its own private deck out the back. When lunch came to be served the steward very kindly brought my soup out to me so that we could eat in the sunshine with the shores of Belfast Lough sliding past us, watching the gannets knifing into the water after lunch of their own.

‘Amazing to be doing this in October’ he said as he set the bowl down and indeed it was, although that was of course the sunny Irish side of the Irish sea. Several nautical miles later we backed into Stranraer in weather that was almost comically grim and drove home through the murk. Ah well. It gives us an excuse to light the stove, after all.