A VERY HAPPY 2016 TO YOU ALL

The year started well for us here in Carradale;  while everyone was struggling with floods and closed roads we got off very lightly with nothing more than a stiff easterly gale.  Mind you the poor souls coming down for New year had to do major expeditions - the Rest had a landslide, Callendar was flooded, the burn was over the bridge at Drymen.  But they all made it , feeling rather smug.

I have now got next year's prices up on the web site so you will have to pay a deposit - being a simple site we can only cope with one year's rates at a time and although it will take a booking, it is beyond it to work out details like deposits.  But all is now clear and we have only put up prices slightly - what with minimum wages (it's O.K., we've always paid well over th minimum wage) , and various other price rises it's important to make a slight increase each year rather than suddenly having to do a huge jump.

Carradale is looking forward  to good year;  the Glen still goes like a fair, the Ashbank has new occupants, and Alen tells us that at last the house down at the quay will be repaired after the fire, so we'll all be looking very smart.  The ferry from Ardrossan to Campbeltown has been confirmed as a permanent (summer) fixture which is wonderful and could save some of you a big chunk of the journey.  Keep an eye open for slightly more sensible timetables than it's had in the past.  Occasionally it decided to go home via the Kilbrannan Sound, so sitting on our balcony we could see it chugging  past.

Hopefully a bit of decorating  will be done in Mhairi's Cottage, and a bit of refurbishing elsewhere - although before we know it Easter will be upon us and the cottages filling up. We have been incredibly busy with our main business - our coup being to supply pendants for Tim Peake to take up to the space station - but this is the time of year when that side of things eases off.

Anyway, look forward to hearing from you all .