It took me more than 70 years to set foot on the Isle of Skye.
Something I had dreamed f since playing Flora MacDonald in a junior school play. And when our Bonnie Prince Charlie wore my Sunday best tartan kilt.
In the past the idea of cruising the British Isles had given way to guaranteed sunshine voyages, but this time the appeal was too great and on Sunday August 21, 2016 we set sail from Southampton on P and O's Oriana - a holiday of island discovery I would now recommend to anyone.
Guernsey, as we knew from a previous visit, is a Channel Island jewel, which sparkled and twinkled in