Aurora Bed and Breakfast Shieldaig
Shieldaig, Ross and Cromarty, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, IV54 8XN, United Kingdom
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Skye!
We started our day in Portree. We rose early and had a good breakfast at the B and B we were staying at. The place was full of Germans who were on holiday in Scotland. Germans seem like a nice bunch when they're not invading Poland. We took a quick look around Portree and took pictures of the waterfront.
This is where they filmed the movie Local Hero, which really spiked my interest in ...
34. Skye High
... to the wind and rain, we stood Loch-side and performed a strange kind of haka, that involved the lyrics "Come to me Nessie," a bit of beckoning, and a Hi! at the end. Hands frozen, faces slapped red with rain, and cameras wet, we stopped for a warming tea before heading back to the bus. From there, we drove on to the beautiful Eilean Donan Castle, one of the most photographed castles in Britain. Unfortunately the weather was so poor that we didn't manage to get much of a photo and ...
Adventure into the Scottish Highlands
... have seen it.
We then got to see Glen Shiel battlefield, the site of the last battle between foreign troops and the British Army, who were fighting the Jacobites and the Spanish.
What trip of Scotland would be complete without looking for the Loch Ness Monster? I took my try at our stop at Loch Ness, but didn't see anything. There was a fog rolling in over the lake when we were there, so it added a bit of extra spookiness to the area.
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Skye high
... living up to it's freakish reputation as we inch towards winter. Today we have spent an amazing (and thoroughly invigorating) day on the stunning geographical freakishness that is the Isle of Skye. A showcase of all the extremes of this windswept land, there are hulking volcanic mountains, deep chasms filled with dark forboding water, and churning oceans that have claimed many a Bonnie sailor's life. Here it is life on the edge, geographically and ...
Skye
Vi tog fra Fort William i morges og koerte ud til "Neptunes Staircase" som er en raekke sluser, men hvorfra der samtidig skulle vaere en god udsigt til nordsiden af Ben Nevis. Udsigten var dog ikke helt saa god pga skye og der skete ikke det store i sluserne saa vi koerte hurtigt videre mod Skye. Paa turen fra Fort William til Skye fik vi virkeligt oplevet det uberegnelige skotske vejr, der hele tiden ...


