{"id":7491,"date":"2025-01-20T16:40:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pattrotter.com\/?p=7491"},"modified":"2025-01-20T16:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:40:29","slug":"a-day-off-to-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pattrotter.com\/?p=7491","title":{"rendered":"A day off to travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a night in the harbour town of Mallaig, I caught the 8:40 ferry to Armadale on the Isle of Skye.\u00a0 This is a short \u2013 50 minute \u2013 ferry ride and on a small ferry (though I seem to recall the ferry was bigger during the summer).\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t understand why they lined us up the way they did, facing away from the ferry ramp, until I realized we had to back down the ramp onto the ferry. 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