Waking up late to a drizzly morning, we found Loch Ewe to be less inspiring than it had seemed in the crisp darkness of the night before. A dreary collection of squat council house type buildings put up to serve the local defence base, we didn't even feel like going ashore. Add to that the grim news from London on this, July 7th, and the mood on board was sombre and ready to move on, which we readily did.