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Now, when you think you're having a hard time remember the tale of eight people on Lewis going to the bar over a cliff top path, on a night. Coming back later and not finding out till the next day that only seven had returned. (It's an old story - but true).

Callanish is one of the ten sites in the world that is observing the next lunar standstill, either April 4th or September 29th 2006. I'm thinking 'tides' and trying to re-align my chakras by plugging in to the Tyne rythymns (or similar). There's high tides due, as we know, and I want to get some pictures of them.

But why bother with all the car fare nonsense, and the possibility of falling off a cliff in the dark on the way home from a bar, when spectacular landscapes and Rock Art are 'on view' in Bolton?

'But why bother with all the car fare nonsense, and the possibility of falling off a cliff in the dark on the way home from a bar, when spectacular landscapes and Rock Art are 'on view' in Bolton?'

Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have you lost your mind?!
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'But why bother with all the car fare nonsense, and the possibility of falling off a cliff in the dark on the way home from a bar, when spectacular landscapes and Rock Art are 'on view' in Bolton?'

Good god, you really have lost your mind, haven't you?!
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When my brothers went to Lewis last year they met the most depressed man in the world. He was sitting there (in Ullapool at the ferry terminal) wearing a "Les Miserables" T-shirt. He asked my brothers where they were going, and when they told him Lewis he said "it's crap there, I've been and there's nothing there, why would you want to go?". You can imagine how the rest of the conversation panned out. It ended with him declaring (and these were his exact words, apparently) "I've been all around the world and all of it's crap, you're better off staying at home". I wonder what he would make of Bolton?

I respect your point of view, by the way, BG! Anyone who can honestly say "sod Callanish, I prefer Bolton" has to be on one all-consuming trip... :)