Greshornish House Hotel
Travel Blogs from Edinbane
Macdonalds of the Isle of Skye
... into the bed and breakfast, Viewfield House, and John’s second cousins, Campbell and Ewan (who everyone calls Yogi), came to get us, it was about 8:15pm. They took us literally across the road to Ewan his wife Marlene’s place, which overlooks Portree Harbour. The whole family—John’s second cousins, third cousins, and his Great Aunt Morag, all in all, about 15 people. John’s third cousins range in age from about 15 to 28, and the ...
A long drive North
... d been warm and sweaty as we’d arrived, but were hit by the wind and the temperature dropped to zero. A quick bite of lunch and we had to head back down to warm up.Next day we headed off to see Loch Coriusk. The centre of an ancient volcano, surrounded by the Cuillins, Loch Coriusk can only be reached by foot or boat and a short walk. We boarded the Bella Jane at Elgol, the 2 boatman filled us in on the way, with stories of the surrounding islands, the local ...
Highlands day 3: Skye → Inverness
... about 15 minutes before getting on the road for our drive to Inverness. Along the way, we drove through the Quiraing mountains and Eileandonan castle ruins. We also stopped very briefly in Portree at the first grocery store we had seen on Skye, in order to get some snacks for the road.
We arrived at Inverness Student Hostel around dinner time, and had a scotch and played darts before heading out to The Castle Inn for ...
Scotland - Skye and Highlands
... had been in New Zealand but then quickly followed by another completely different part of "New Zealand". It was familiar and very beautiful. We saw a lot of people setting up tents to camp or driving in their camper vans and who can blame them, Scotland is definitely the place to do it!
After a quick stop for lunch by the sea in Fort William, where prices were a welcome change from London. We carried on towards the Isle of Skye, ...
Idling through the Isle of Skye
... there too. After closer inspection we realised there was a scarecrow competition going on and then they didn’t seem so creepy. Driving around was interesting as the roads were really narrow, only wide enough for one lane. Every once in awhile there was a spot to pull over so that if you met a car coming the other way you could time it so that one of you was pulled over. You’d think people would get really impatient but it actually seemed to work ...