The Old Post Office House
Travel Blogs from Balmacara
Macdonalds of the Isle of Skye
... of roast beef, Yorkshire pudding and gravy, with a salmon and haddock cream bake to start off. After dinner, we sat around the living room playing a variety of games the family had made up at their last New Years’ party. The most entertaining ones included trying to pick up a cereal box without touching your hands or knees to the ground, with the box getting progressively smaller until it was just a 1 inch piece of cardboard. Campbell and ...
A long drive North
... and they tasted like a combination of crab and lobster, lovely.Two days to go and the rain came down. We dragged the kids round the Talisker whisky distillery, the smells of fermentating peat and new whisky mixed with the rain pouring down outside. Dramatic Neist Point lighthouse on the cliffs in the drizzle and wind was all we could manage on the last day.So we packed up the Land Rover and headed south, back to England. With McGregor on one side of the family and Stuart ...
Highlands day 3: Skye → Inverness
... food even though they got next to nothing to eat and what they got was bland or burnt. We also saw the kitchen (or keep) dating back to 1360, and the back yard of the castle, overlooking Dunvegan Lake.
We then drove through Uig to the Fairy Glen, a bizarre but pretty miniature landscape of grassy, cone-shaped hills, with exposed basaltic rock in some places, including the peak called Castle Ewen. We walked around the Fairy ...
Scotland - Skye and Highlands
Scotland - the home of kilts, bagpipes and Braveheart but to us it was a lot like home! We decided since we had a bank holiday weekend we'd go away to Scotland for a look-see. We caught a surprisingly short 5 hour train ride to Edinburgh from London on the Friday night and stayed the night in huge dorm room in a backpackers across the road from the train station. For the Fringe Festival weekend it was surprisingly not as busy as we were expecting so ...
Idling through the Isle of Skye
... the rain to a bit of a run down hostel. It was not as cosy as the lovely B&B’s we’d been staying at but we had a dorm with some nice German guys and some noisy French people who arrived really late.
As it was raining, we decided to go for a bit of a drive around the Isle. Driving through some of the towns we noticed some creepy/funny scarecrows along the roadside. We ended up going to another whiskey distillery to do a tasting and saw ...
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Other places to stay in Balmacara
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Balmacara Mains Guesthouse
Glaick, Balmacara | B&B -
Ceol Na Mara
Reraig, Balmacara | B&B
