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Macdonalds of the Isle of Skye
... in heaven! We sat with John’s Aunt Morag, who is an amazing woman. She is John’s paternal grandpa’s sister. She is an 85 year old kidney transplant patient (the oldest surviving kidney transplant patient in the UK!) and one of the most quick-witted people I think I’ve ever met. She keeps up with her four middle-aged boys who spent most of the night throwing verbal jabs at each other. I ended up sitting beside Ewan, who kept my wine ...
A long drive North
... us inside their gated drive without the combination to the gate, luckily we caught the neighbour) we drove to The Isle of Skye. Thank god for books on tape. Steven Fry kept us going, reading Harry Potter, it took us 11 hours. We had a brief stop at Glen Coe and talked about the massacre of the Mc Donalds by the Campbells. In Feb 1692, 38 men were massacred there and 40 women and children died of exposure after their cottages were burned.I don’t really know ...
Highlands day 3: Skye → Inverness
... where the Waterside Café at the gas station was open, and got traditional breakfasts, with eggs, toast, beans and bacon. Our next stop was Dunvagan castle, about a kilometre down the road. The castle is situated through gardens on the shoes of Loch Dunvegan, and is the oldest continually-inhabited castle in Scotland. It has been the ancestral home of the chiefs of the Clan MacLeod for 800 years.
The castle was full ...
Scotland - Skye and Highlands
... amazing landscapes along the way, certainly not a boring drive. We were greeted by more lochs on the west coast, before climbing over the bridge to Skye. Skye was a great place, seemed about as hospitable as the central plateau, but very nice all the same. We stayed at a backpackers, just outside the “town” of Carbost, a very small village with a pub, whisky distillery and that’s about it. Must be a quiet place, as the locals ...
Idling through the Isle of Skye
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Evan had researched on the internet and found out about this really cool spot with strange looking hills with great views – Fairy Glen. We managed to find the spot and had a bit of a walk. It was magnificent, the views were amazing and the mounds were really interesting. We got some awesome pictures on top of the highest mound, we took turns as the other ran across to the other high mound and took pictures from there. It was pretty high up and I got ...
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