On a tour bus, lumbering along the winding and rain drenched roads across the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. He’s taking photos through the condensation covered windows, she’s trying to sleep through her travel sickness.
“It makes the landscape look like a rural version of a Turner painting”
“Very good,” she says with a yawn.
“That’s the smartest thing I’ll say on this entire trip.”
“Will you do a post about it?”
“No, probably not.”
And you probably didn’t; except that is more a statement about Scotland than any I would be prepared to make. I have been there when it wasn’t raining – in 1996, I think – around 2:30pm…
I admire your precision. It was a bit po mo as a post for sure.