Piffka wrote:McTag, you naughty man! I've been looking for a ferry from Leith for HOURS!!! You meant sailing your own boat.
All was not lost, I did see another way to get to Orkney on the night boat from Aberdeen.
Oh no, something got lost in the translation there. (You've got to watch it with Walter, he's one of these tricky foreigners
).
I did think boats left Leith for Orkney & Shetland, I'm sure they did once.
Sorry to be so out-of-date.
No, I've no boat of my own unfortunately, more's the pity, but I used to hire rowing boats at Girvan.
Which reminds me, here is a phrase which will guarantee a free drink for an American holidaymaker in a Scottish pub:
Doonra watter furra Ferr!
If you learn that, and utter it at appropriate moments, you will entrance the locals, especially in the west.
McT