Lochboisdale Hotel
Travel Blogs from Lochboisdale
A Day of Rainbows
... the plan had been to take the cable car up Aonach Mor in the Nevis range but the clouds were obscuring the peaks of Ben Nevis and neighbouring mountains so we swept on by - no point in paying £11.25 each for something you can't see (you can take the man out of Yorkshire...). Turning on to the Kyle of Lochlash road just after the Spean Bridge, we stopped at a monument to the Commandoes of WW2 largely because of it's commanding views ...
The isle of Skye
Well. What they say about the beauty in the highlands is absolutely true. And I didn't even see as much as was expected. The highlands were just incredible. So unique and massive and spectacular. The bummer was that it just so happened that the day that I picked to your skye it was raining sideways, fog everywhere, and wind gusts of 40 mph. We didn't get to see everything on the tour due to the fog and it was hard to take ...
Eriskay and Uist
... mainly from Edradour Distillery. Once the crew were safe, the islanders got busy saving the cargo. It is thought that over 2,000 cases or 24,000 bottles were recovered before the authorities arrived on the scene. On arrival, police and customs officers searched the entire island and several islanders were actually jailed for theft, this is not something that is mentioned in Compton Mackenzie's bestselling 1947 novel "Whisky Galore" based on the story of the SS Politician, ...
Mair Rain and Failed Fougasse
... shapes as tortured, alien shaped, buggeration bread. Like something that has burst out of John Hurt's chest cavity. RICHARD! Au Secoursssssss!! Or should that be Ripley? However, despite the shapes, it has the right chewy outer and soft inner and tastes the business. I pick hardened dough out of my eyebrows. And I can't even take a photo of the bread for fear of destroying my camera as the sticky dough has bonded with my hands at sub atomic level to ...
Pabbay and Mingulay
... cormorants, skuas, fulmars. He takes the boat through the natural rock arch, there's not much room and this would be not be a good place to be in rough conditions. On the other side seals bob about in the water. We then head around to the east of the island and I expect to see another empty white beach. But, no - the beach has been claimed by a crowd of fat sunbathers. As we get closer to the shore, they scrabble en masse into the sea. Seals. And then, rather than heading ...