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Uig Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Uig, United Kingdom
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Day 6 travel from Morar to Uig, Isle of Skye
... MacKinnion's lived over a large area so it was quite difficult to pin down exactly where they lived but that the area around Uig was a likely location. We then moved on to Uig and our B&B. After getting settled in and seeing the coluds lift ...
Blue Skyes
We reached the hostel at Uig, one of the northernmost towns on the Isle of Skye, last night. This morning, while re-charging the camera battery, I picked up a couple of books from the hostel's library (pay or exchange). I got one in English ...
Castles in the Skye
... I'm reading Whisky Galore, which is well suited to my surroundings. It's very funny but I'm not sure about factual. Uig has a fantastic campground (best we've seen in all of Scotland). The proprietor of the campground recommended that we walk ...
Days Five and Six
... and the name was changed to Uig; the V changed to a U and as there is no K in Gallic it became G and thus - Uig. (Can't remember if I said but Gaelic is pronounced Gallic in Scotland.) Skye is amazing, big sky, wild bluffs and headlands, and all ...
To Tarbert in the Outer Hebrides
We landed in Lochmaddy from Uig. Then took a bus to Bernary in order to catch the next ferry to Harris. These are scenes from that leg of the journey. Bleak and wild ...
Isle of Skye
... a few war memorials in every town. The heat wave continued, in fact the temperatures were so high a power pole caught fire and Uig lost power for several hours. There was no internet site there anyway, it was a very small town. At the hostel where we ...
A Day of Rainbows
... . Looking left, the faint outline of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides is visible. If you catch it at the right time, you can spot the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry scurrying to and fro from Lochmaddy to Uig, further along the Skye coast. It's ...
Eilean Donan Castle
... 30ies and afterwards was used as a summer residence. After that we drove to the Isle of Skye and a village called Uig. We wanted to take a boat from there and visit the Standing Stones of Callandish. Unfortunately we weren't very good prepared and ...
North Uist
Tuesday 19 ======== Returning to the boat for a lunch of smoked salmon, we departed half two and steamed North for 4 hours. The Northerly wind was brisk but not excessive and (more importantly) the sea state was only moderate. Eventually we found our way ...
Hunting Fairies
... before it shut for the day and make our way down the hill towards the Church of Scotland building. There are two churches in Uig that we had discovered over the course of the last few days. This one had a 1030 service that we decided we would go ...
Still bloody freezing mate
... it was. We stopped a couple of times to view the Atlantic from the Island..the Kilt Rock and then down to Uig, a busy port and fishing town at one stage. We visited Dunevan castle, the oldest inhabited castle in Britain, and place where the ...
drove and drove and drove!!
Set off about 12 from the campground, and arrived at the ferry terminal on the Isle of Skye about 10pm!! Quite a bit of stopping and looking around along the way, and we were pleased it was still light as we travelled through Skye. Doesn't get dark till ...
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