Journey No 5 – 11th to 14th February 2010

11th February 2010

Departed Carrick Castle to go skiing at Nevis Range. Beautiful views driving up.

Skied in the afternoon and parked up in Neis Range car park. Went to the Ceilidh at the top station for the evening dancing and having a drink or two of mulled wine. Interesting going up and coming down in the gondola in the dark. Great views of the lights of Fort William, Coal and Corpach. Good evening that was the start of the Mountain Festival.

12th February 2010

Visited Douglas’s parents in Corpach in the morning and took Betty, his mother, shopping. We went skiing in the afternoon and then took Betty and Donald, his father, out to the Lochy in Coal and stayed in their car park overnight after visiting the Corpach Hotel with them to plan their 70th Wedding Anniversary lunch on 3rd April 2010.

14th February 2010

St Valentine’s Day – We went skiing in the morning. Misty at the bottom station and at the top of the mountain. In between the skiing and the snow was good. Unfortunately it was difficult to see higher up and not so easy. Stopped for an early lunch in Harrie in the Nevis Range car park. Decided to head home arriving around 4pm.

The ignitor to the gas fire had not been working for some reason so we had three nights without heat in the van. Not such a problem as it turned out as we were out every evening and as our duvet is a 13.5 tog we were very warm in bed and slept well. Following the replacement of the alternator belt we have had no screeching noises from the heater. On getting home we discovered that the ignitor to the heater is powered by two AA batteries. No mention of this in the manual! We replaced the batteries andater worked again…

Mileage at start 112399 km & 112794 km on return home, totalling 395 km (247 miles).