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I love fresh bread it looks so good. Your dinners look so good, too.
The scenery up there is so beautiful. I'm enjoying looking at all your pictures.
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Great scenery and lovely views! Much of it would remind me of Ireland's est coast! Great photos of the coos! Those are some views from your room and you lucked out in this regard. You have quite a nice room. Dinner looks great so far and especially your seafood and linguine dish, which I know I'd love! Sounds like the rest of the meal isn;t promising and I guess a problem with dessert?
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Such wonderful photos of the Highland coos! So adorable! Awesome view from your room, too. Dinner is looking delicious, but I'm concerned about what happens next.
Great scenery and lovely views! Much of it would remind me of Ireland's est coast!
One day we'll have to make it over there and judge for ourselves...
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Great photos of the coos! Those are some views from your room and you lucked out in this regard. You have quite a nice room. Dinner looks great so far and especially your seafood and linguine dish, which I know I'd love! Sounds like the rest of the meal isn;t promising and I guess a problem with dessert?
Wednesday 14 June – part ten: dinner goes downhill….
Now just before the desserts arrived, our dinner went rapidly downhill, and it was no fault of the restaurant. A group of guys came in with Manchester accents and they were completely and utterly obnoxious. They complained about the menu, how much food cost, and they’d obviously had a few drinks, shall we say. It was not a nice combination. They were swearing, being loud, and pretty rude to the serving staff, all of whom were women. Mari went to have a word with our server, and strongly suggested if they had a guy working, they get him in, but apparently her boyfriend works in the kitchen, and she said she’d get him out if they were any further issues.
We ate our desserts pretty quickly, shall we say, and at one point, one of the guys who wanted another pint, actually interrupted our conversation with our server, then said to us “she’s boring, isn’t she?” We just told him not at all. It really wasn’t worth it to get into it with this complete bunch of idiots.
Anyway, the food… I went for the fruit pavlova with white chocolate anglaise and berry coulis, and it was excellent.
Mark had the sticky chocolate and orange cake….
I have to say the meal was excellent, with the exception of the three idiots. I just really hope karma bites them really badly for their behaviour, and I hope they left soon after us, so the wait staff didn’t have to deal with them for too much longer after we left.
We can’t comment on value for money, as Mari and Raleigh paid, in return for some of the bits and pieces we’d bought along the way…
We headed outside, and it was beautiful out there.
We found some more swans and their cygnets, although the parents were a little more restrained than we’d seen previously…
It was cold out there too, so Mari and I (we were both cold!) were delighted to head back inside.
We headed back to the room, and I kept an eye on the views outside, as it was a lovely sunset.
I even spotted a heron out there.
Now bear in mind this was around 10:00pm, and look at it – not even a sign of it getting dark out there. Try as we might, our thoughts of seeing a full sunset were not looking promising. We just couldn’t stay up late enough!
It had been a perfect, peaceful evening (well, with the exception of the idiots in the restaurant ) but sadly that peace wasn’t going to last for much longer, not that we knew that at the time we went to bed…
The weather today was cloudy, with some sun and a little light rain and temperatures in the low 60s. The best thing today was the beautiful scenery we saw everywhere today. The worst thing today was the obnoxious idiots in the restaurant. Today we tried visiting Inveraray Castle And the result was it was really spectacular, and I’m so glad we got to see it. The most magical moment today was getting those wonderful photos of the Highland coos!
Dinner sounded lovely until the idiots arrived, I feel sorry for the wait staff. The evening sure is beautiful you captured it so well. I don't like the sound of the next update.
I don't know how restaurant staff don't just boot that type of group to the curb. At least they weren't obnoxious Americans!
The pictures of that night sky are striking.
I always think the low tide/high tide differential is more significant in the British Isles. There's no doubting when the tide has gone out, is there?
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Oh boy. That's really a shame that humans behave like that. No clue for how their actions are affecting anybody else. I'm glad you still enjoyed the whole meal though, it sure sounded like a great place, despite allowing the riff-raff in!
Beautiful pictures of the sky at sunset time! I can't imagine being even further north at June 21 and sun partially setting at like 2am or whatever. So weird!!
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I don't know how restaurant staff don't just boot that type of group to the curb.
No, neither do I... I was expecting them to get throw out...
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At least they weren't obnoxious Americans!
There is that...
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The pictures of that night sky are striking.
I always think the low tide/high tide differential is more significant in the British Isles. There's no doubting when the tide has gone out, is there?
No there isn't. I must admit I've never thought about it, probably because I've never really noticed the difference in the tide much in other places. Mind you, I do know we've docked places before with Disney and also on our Baltic cruise where the difference between high and low tide has been very noticeable.
Oh boy. That's really a shame that humans behave like that. No clue for how their actions are affecting anybody else.
I know. Why do people do that?
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I'm glad you still enjoyed the whole meal though, it sure sounded like a great place, despite allowing the riff-raff in!
Beautiful pictures of the sky at sunset time! I can't imagine being even further north at June 21 and sun partially setting at like 2am or whatever. So weird!!
Neither can I. It was freaky when we were in Norway in early July. The curtains still let the light in and we had real problems sleeping.
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Much of it would remind me of Ireland's est coast! 
Sounds like the rest of the meal isn;t promising and I guess a problem with dessert?
So adorable! Awesome view from your room, too. 
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They were swearing, being loud, and pretty rude to the serving staff, all of whom were women. Mari went to have a word with our server, and strongly suggested if they had a guy working, they get him in, but apparently her boyfriend works in the kitchen, and she said she’d get him out if they were any further issues. 
I'm glad you still enjoyed the whole meal though, it sure sounded like a great place, despite allowing the riff-raff in! 
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