{"id":6587,"date":"2009-08-24T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=6587"},"modified":"2009-08-24T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T06:57:00","slug":"benefits-of-scottish-summer-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/benefits-of-scottish-summer-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of Scottish Summer Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/loch-sunart-scotland-244.jpg\" alt=\"Loch-Sunart-Scotland-244\" width=\"576\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maybe we&#8217;ve been a little hard on the Scots about their weather. Can&#8217;t do much about it, so we have learned to ignore the wet and wind and enjoy the brief periods of sunshine.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/loch-sunart-scotland-203.jpg\" alt=\"Tobermory-Scotland-203\" width=\"576\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the sun does come out, and there is a bit of shape to the clouds, the images can be breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/loch-sunart-scotland-211.jpg\" alt=\"Tobermory-Scotland-211\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As these two photos of Tobermory reveal.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/loch-sunart-scotland-305.jpg\" alt=\"Loch-Sunart-Scotland-305\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few hours (or minutes) later it could be blowing a gale.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/isle-of-mull-scotland-358.jpg\" alt=\"Isle-of-Mull-Scotland-358\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Scots don&#8217;t let a little wind and rain keep them from the beach, so we figured to adopt the same approach.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/isle-of-mull-scotland-263.jpg\" alt=\"Isle-of-Mull-Scotland-263\" width=\"576\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It may be breezy, but the kids don&#8217;t seem to mind.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/isle-of-mull-scotland-305.jpg\" alt=\"Isle-of-Mull-Scotland-305\" width=\"576\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This small fish net is a big seller in the Tobermory toy store and is now a permanent part of our cruising gear.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/isle-of-mull-scotland-333.jpg\" alt=\"Isle-of-Mull-Scotland-333\" width=\"576\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Grandma keeps an eye on things.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/isle-of-mull-scotland-210.jpg\" alt=\"Isle-of-Mull-Scotland-210\" width=\"576\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, this is a little off topic, but we like the scenery on the Isle of Mull, and the sun is shining in this photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe we&#8217;ve been a little hard on the Scots about their weather. Can&#8217;t do much about it, so we have <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/benefits-of-scottish-summer-weather\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}