We made it to the little town of Thurso on the north coast of Scotland this afternoon, quite a cute little town, but not so cute weather. We had expected to catch a ferry from this place to Orkney tomorrow morning and spend a day or so there seeing some of the archeological sites. But on finding out that the ferry ride would cost us something like $400 we decided on a one day bus tour (from the town of John O'Groats) as a better alternative.

It is worth saying that the drive today was interesting despite the weather. More narrow roads along bleak and very lightly inhabited coast line. We may not be at the end of the earth but we must be pretty close.

The camping ground at Thurso had very good wifi and reasonable showers.