Sunday 1st September 2019 Today we travel from Fort William to Stornoway. A more leisurely breakfast is available from 07:30 to 9:00 and while breakfast is eaten our luggage is taken from outside our rooms down to reception. Brian, the driver, arrives and we load the luggage onto the coach. Departing at 9:00 Brian drives us up to the ferry port at Mallaig, where we arrive at 10:15. I pop into the ferry terminal and collect all the individual tickets for the three ferry crossings that we will take during this tour. I have a quick moment to cross the road to visit Mallaig railway station. Mallaig station is at the end of the railway line from Fort William and the end of the Jacobite stream route. It is also the most westerly railway station on mainland Britain. Surprisingly, further west than Penzance. At 10:30 we begin boarding the ferry. Although we arrived on a coach, and the same coach with our luggage on drives onto the ferry, we have to walk on as foot passengers. At 11:00 the ferry departs for the crossing to Armdale on the Isle of Skye. Whilst the coach journey to Mallaig had been accompanied by rain, the crossing to Skye was dry, sunny and calm. The ferry takes 35 minutes to cross from the mainland. Arriving at Armdale . . . . . . we re-board the coach and Brian drives us for an hour and a half up to Uig at the north […]