Perfect Conditions for the Eriska Christmas triathalon

the first year we opened for Christmas, over 14 years ago, all our visitors arrived and the next day- boxing day- I went out for the papers on black roads and returned half an hour later to snow covered tracks and that immediately froze and stayed with us for the whole festive period. In fact it was so deep the freeze that the snow had a wonderful crust on it and you could walk over most areas of the island. For many of our visitors this was their first christmas in Scotland and obviously we did not draw their attention to the fact that this was abnormal weather for us but we have now been luck enough over the years to have had a couple of white Christmas's and really to date only one where it rained and rained consistently, but that is enough to remind us how lucky we are for good weatherer of this period and not to take anything for granted.

Anyway this year it has been a challenge for some of our guest to reach us but now we are full and everybody has arrived we can really breathe a sigh of relief and start planning how to keep busy! Today was supposed to be a golf tournament but the frost- not the snow- put paid to that and therefore we arranged a mini triathlon. However the temperature and icy conditions stopped us running cycling and swimming in the sea so it was down to garden darts, speed croquet and iced bowls. All far more  civilized and probably easier on the eye and most importantly no injuries. But the sun shone and with mince-pies and mulled wine in hand a good time was had by all!