Don't panic -Siouxsie says it will be alright

 My last full day in work, and the enormity of the task was starting to sink in. I have managed to work out a route through some of Scotland's awesome West Coast, across several islands  before turning  back south along the iconic  A9  through the famous Speyside glen before threading my way past Edinburgh, the lowlands and back to England and home to South Wales. It involves 55 distilleries, 30 tours/tastings and not to mention a small issue of 2,500 miles, riding 20 ferries, and 17 hotels/B&Bs.

So, the last night of preparation could have done without discovering the luggage doesn't fit, and it didn't help having to re-arrange the itinerary because a distillery cancelled on me. The camera case somehow got smaller but is was all a bit tight. Then where do I put the 30 Welsh Cakes and half dozen Toberones and still leave room to purchase some distillery exclusive single malts?

The little item shown opposite is one of Diageo's Rare Malts series of about 50 'expressions' and will cost you at least £500 at auction, and no, I haven't got one.

So I crammed the camera into the top box on the bike, took Siouxsie at her word and prayed it would be OK tomorrow.