I accepted another red wine from my beau, as my throat was quite dry from all the dancing, and after that I gave myself over completely to the enjoyment of the moment. Alex had given up on keeping me safe, and had left for his caravan that was parked in the caravan park, trying to give me a last warning about my beau's intentions, but of course I knew only too well, and at that stage I was ripe for any mischief. So when, let's call him Danny, asked me to go with him to his place, I readily agreed, all sense of propriety and judgement by now having left my alcohol infused brain, and I walked out of the pub on the arm of my young beau, with almost the whole village, and caravanners, and guests watching!
But I was too high on my alcohol cloud to care, and was a willing partner in what happened that night.
I woke up early, and for the life of me couldn't remember where I was, all I knew was that I was in a strange room, and when my eyes got accustomed to the dark, and I realized that there was a man sleeping next to me, I was out of that bed like a flash. It took some time for me to remember about the previous night, and I was horrified, so I got dressed quickly, my head pounding like it was going to explode, and I took to the road. As I had only a vague idea of the way we drove the previous night, I decided to turn left out of Danny's drive way, and started walking.
It was a small road, running underneath trees and I could make out a mountain on the one side, and after walking for ages, I came to a loch. That was wrong, as we never passed a loch the previous night, and after hyperventilating badly just thinking of going back, I realized that I was completely lost, and would have to go back to my beau's place, so that he could take me home. So I started on the long walk back, and I was absolutely wrecked by the time I re-entered his house, where he was still sleeping soundly. My head was ready to fall off, it was aching so much from the alcohol I had consumed, so, it being only six o'clock, I lay down on the bed again, and tried to close my eyes, hoping that my head would just ache a little less.
But I had to be at the hotel at seven, as I kept the key for the kitchen, and we had a lot of people to feed. Danny was not at all selfconcious about the previous night, and tried to pull me back into his bed, but I was adamant to be in time for work, so I told him to take me back quickly. He then suggested that he would come and pick me up later, and we could spend the day at his house, or drive somewhere for lunch.
At the hotel we both threw stones at the window where Anna was hopefully sleeping, as she had to open the door for me, and after what felt like forever, her face appeared at the window, and I asked her to please open the door for me, at which she disappeared without  showing that she understood, and I felt really uncomfortable,as she did not look to good!
I waved my beau a hasty goodbye, hoping that Anna was awake enough to indeed open the door, and legged it around the side of the hotel to the back door, but halfway there all hell broke loose, as Anna had forgotten about the bally alarm, and this thing was now heralding me into the hotel by screaming like it was absolutely beserk! I stopped for a moment, wanting to turn tail and run away, but my consience would not let me, so I braved the back door, where Joe, Rosanne, Ged, their kids, John, and just about all the guests were milling around, not knowing what had put the alarm off, or opened the door! Of Anna there was no sign. By now Ged had made a run for the alarm and switched it off.
Joe, Rosanne and Ged of course knew what I was doing outside at this time of the morning, but the guests, the ones that haven't met me yet, looked me over with mistrust on their faces, and I felt very, very silly! Took me a long time to live that down, but that was also the start of an affair that would last for quite a few years, but I also realized that drinking too much make you loose all sense of judgement, but it was also that night that I discovered Loch Voile, where I spent many happy hours for years to come! On the top photo just the roof of my beau's house can be seen, while the bottom one was my first view of Loch Voile in daylight!