Inverness; Friday, 02 May, 2014

As it was an early morning flight I’d headed over to the airport the evening beforehand, so at a little after 5am I was checking out of the Premier Inn and heading towards the terminal building at Gatwick.

I had an uneventful journey through the airport, and everything appeared to be running smoothly with everyone on board and ready to go about 10 minutes before we were due to depart, but then one of the passengers got taken ill and had to be taken off of the plane.

By the time they had managed to get a paramedic to check him over, confirm he was unfit to fly, recover his bags from the hold and then get back to a ready to depart position we were over an hour late pushing back and even later by the time we finally turned onto the runway to take off.

Thankfully an uneventful flight (which I suppose it probably wouldn’t have been if they hadn’t taken the sick person off…) later we touched down in Edinburgh and after a quick journey through the airport I was on the bus into town.

I’d originally had several hours to kill in Edinburgh, but with the delay to the flight this was now only a couple of hours, so I had grabbed a very slow cup of coffee near the station before heading down to catch my train north.

The train was packed almost the whole way to Inverness, so I was quite glad of the short walk from the station down to the hotel to be able to stretch my limbs a little.

Having checked in I went for a bit of a wander through the city, and up the River Ness towards the Ness Islands.

After quite a long walk I headed back to the hotel to grab dinner and an early night