Razor sharp.

 

Rain one minute, tropical heat the next. Welcome to a Scottish summer. This morning there's a Royal Navy vessel moored a hundred meters offshore. A group of swimmers are leaping out of a Zodiac and landing on the rocks where the Cormorants perch. The Cormorants aren't happy about this. The Royal Marines or Special Boat Squadron or whoever they are ignore us. The farmers wife says they come here every year. Last summer we were at the house in town while the kitchen was installed which may explain why this martial activity comes as a surprise. Rather them than me - the rocks must be razor sharp.

A drive down the coast to the farm shop. All the farm shops are fancy but this one serves the upmarket Edinburgh crowd who have summer homes here. The summer homes are being 'opened up' ahead of the school holidays.

The shop has garlic at a price the French would consider outrageous.

Back in town many of  the apartments that have been let out to students during term time have had a brusque makeover with a can of paint and are now being let out to the £3000 a week summer crowd.

One of the apartments has a plastic wreath on the front door  and plastic flowers in the window boxes. Someone clearly though this would make the place look 'luxurious '. 

With the students gone the age profile of the town has shifted from early twenties to late fifties. Judging from the hoardes of Madrilenos that are already here it must be some sort of Spanish holiday or perhaps they're escaping the heat ?

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