Dundee; Monday, 26 August, 2013

I woke up to a thick wall of fog that was enveloping the whole of the city, giving me slight cause for concern that my flight in the evening may not run, especially as a quick check online showed that the 6:30 flight had been cancelled.

After a breakfast conducted at near light speed compared to the previous morning, I checked out of the hotel and headed out into town to catch the bus a short distance along the coast to the castle at Broughty Ferry.

I had a long look around the castle and a bit of a wander around the harbour area before I headed back into town and over to the Verdant Jute Works, formerly one of the city’s many Jute manufacturing plants, all of which have closed down, and now a museum to the history of the Jute Industry in the city.

It was a very interesting museum with lots to see, and some enthusiastic demonstrations of the equipment that was utilised in the works when it was in full manufacturing.

By the time I left the works there was just time for a quick, very late lunch, before I headed back to the hotel to collect my stuff.

The morning’s fog had now all disappeared to be replaced by a gloriously sunny afternoon, and the flight was still scheduled to be taking place, with departure just 90 minutes away. However, because Dundee is such a small airport the last check-in time was just 15 minutes before departure, so I took advantage of the extra time to walk to the airport along the very pleasant riverside walk that leads under the stunning Tay Bridge.

At any other airport I would probably not have made the flight as I wandered up to the check-in desk just 30 minutes before departure time, but here it turned out I was one of the earlier passengers, as I discovered when I walked through security into an almost deserted gate room.

A short while later the other 20 or so passengers for the flight drifted through into the gate lounge, just before the flight was opened for boarding.