{"id":970,"date":"2010-05-15T12:52:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T11:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:57:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:57:11","slug":"proven-idiot-in-ferry-f-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2010\/05\/proven-idiot-in-ferry-f-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Proven idiot in ferry f*** up."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_974\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-974\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ferry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-974\" title=\"ferry\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ferry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ferry I failed to book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am writing this from a Calmac hotspot feeling like a fool in a car park. Having been in Oban, Kilmelford and Loch\u00a0Melfort for the past few days today is the day we head to the Isles. Up early and in the car, ready for action with the \u00a0print out of my booking stuffed into my handbag we arrived at Oban ferry terminal in\u00a0 good time. Handing over my ticket the man smiled &#8211; this is for Craignure to Oban. Yes I smiled it is. You&#8217;re not in Craignure though are you? You&#8217;re in Oban.<\/p>\n<p>The penny dropped. Eejit alert. I booked the ferry the wrong way round. So Calmac were great they changed our tickets in moments (whilst grinning)\u00a0to the 6pm &#8211; the next ferry with space. So 6 hours to kill we are now in the stand-by queue. We may get on the 2pm. We may not.\u00a0 We may get on the 4pm. We may not. But we will get on the 6pm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-975\" style=\"width: 79px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lobster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-975\" title=\"lobster\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lobster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"79\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looks like lunch has arrived - this from seafood shack!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every cloud. There&#8217;s\u00a0 a geezer called John Ogden who runs a wee shack from Oban pier from where he sells great punnets of scallops and giant prawn sandwiches. That&#8217;s lunch sorted. Sitting here I realise Calmac have a free hotspot.\u00a0 I can update my blog and let the world go by. Hell I may not even get the ferry I may just stay here, scoff seafood and wave\u00a0off the intelligent ferry bookers of today and tomorrow. \u00a0Bon Appetit and if we get there an update from the Isles!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this from a Calmac hotspot feeling like a fool in a car park. Having been in Oban, Kilmelford and Loch\u00a0Melfort for the&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,24],"tags":[587,592,590,593,585,588,589,584,591,18,586,568],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}