Two Travellers, One World

I was up fairly early and decided I would head down to Loch Leven to test out whether I had fixed the issues with the waypoint mission. I had created a small test over land nearby to make sure it would take photos. Success! With that successful test I commenced the real flight – out and around the castle. Everything went perfectly, I was high enough over the castle to get some great shots. When I got back to Louise’s we had a look at the photos and they turned out pretty good, even if I say so myself.

I had talked to David and Louise the earlier night about taking some photos/video with the drone at nearby Loch Leven. There is a castle on an island in Loch Leven called Lochleven Castle. It was where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned, escaped and fled to England. Ros and I went down to to the loch. I had set up a ‘mission’ on my drone app that would take photos on one trip halfway around the island and then video on the next trip. It was a 2.2km round trip and would take about 8 minutes according to the app.

We had an early-ish start (if 9:30am is early) to get on the road as there were a number of stops on the way we wanted to make.

The house was like stepping back in time, comfy four poster bed, bathroom with everything you need, including (the softest towels ever) a two seater couch in the room and a view of the mountains really relaxing, being so close to nature we didn’t turn on the TV and feel asleep. After the late arrival the night before, the breakfast spread that they had put on was fantastic. It was all in our room so we didn’t have to leave. We had tea, coffee, croissants, fruit scones, yoghurt, juice etc. Great way to start the day.

Friday started with a twist. We had received an email a couple of hours earlier from Hainan Airlines advising that our flight from Dublin to Shenzhen in September had been cancelled. Uh-oh. We frantically tried to call Hainan Airlines to confirm what our options were. The phone cut out a couple of times, but they ended up ringing back to continue the discussion.