Fun with ferries

or starters, there’s the big ferry just to get here. It takes 13 hours and it can be a wonderful passage from Aberdeen, seeing the hills of Scotland and getting up at 0500 to watch Fair Isle slip past. It can also be the sort where you head for your berth with a good book, and she’s just rolling nicely when the stabilisers judder in. I enjoy those wild journeys too, though I’d like