Alex Hunter's Blog - Posts Tagged "the-testing-of-archie-rathbone"

I'd never been to Scotland before - at least not if you don't count a few business trips to Edinburgh and Glasgow - a quick flight in, heather strewn moors laid out beneath the plane, mountains glimpsed though grimy taxi windows... No, I'd never really been to Scotland before. Just to drive the point home, the scenery of the West Coast is even more impossibly beautiful than I'd dared hope. So often, when you've invested so much money and hard-fought annual leave allocation in one holiday, you want - no you need it to be special, but nothing had prepared me for the reality of the mist-shrouded mountains of the Inner Hebrides, viewed across the glassy waters of the North Atlantic, shell-white sand between my toes.

I'd wanted to see this fabled land for myself, but as Archie Rathbone had been there before me, I also wanted to see if it really was as reported. I can only conclude that he and Emma didn't see it at its best.

If there was anything that cast a pale shadow over this idylic scene, it was the presence of some footprints in the sand. I've written elsewhere about the ominous suggestion that Trenchfoote (a Herring Gull of ill repute) has escaped from the pages of my book... well, let's just hope I was wrong...

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