The 2011 Trip Approaches

Planning is now beginning to occur. First count has a group of nine this year, with two visiting the island for the first time. As with last year some of us are booked into The Cloisters (which I must mention as an excellent B&B) with others in the YHA and the last two elsewhere. Due to massively soaring petrol prices and the 950 mile round trip we've structered vehicles to keep these costs low - so two cars and one van. This year we have planned to go on a new moon to get the nights as dark as possible which, for those of you that know, is difficult this far north in July (night is only about 4 hours). Expectation is rising.