Week 8 took Daphne and I out and about the District again, with our first port of call to the Portree RC on the Isle of Skye. The warm welcome of President Chrisann and her fellow Rotarians was greatly appreciated, given the inclement weather outside. The venue at the Cuillin Hills Hotel may have great views of this iconic range on a good day, but the mountains of Skye were singularly invisible in the heavy rain. The Club has a number of excellent fund raising ideas and is starting to pull in new members, so this all augurs well for the future. The island Clubs have their own unique niche in the community but are keen not to miss out on the mainstream activities of Rotary in District 1010. Ideas such as audio-visula links would ease their problems of communication and travel, and are surely the way forward. I am delighted that our head of communications, James Martin, is actively pursuing such innovations. The weather on the following day was if anything, even wetter, but every cloud does indeed have a silver lining. Every little stream had been turned into a raging torrent, with some of the waterfalls spectacular to say the least. However, there is good reason for Daphne and I to go back to Skye to see the island in sunnier weather, which we certainly hope to do in the not too distant future.
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