Broadford
Our first stay on the Isle of Skye was in Broadford. We had to bridge a night. Accommodation was amazingly hard to find. Somehow the Isle of Skye is overrun by tourists in summer. Ida found some...
View ArticlePortree
On Saturday we drove to Portree. Probably a typical day on the Isle of Skye. They get about 1500-2000mm a year, Broadford even seems to get up to 2800mm a year (Auckland gets 1200mm a year).The road...
View ArticleDunvegan castle
We drove over the North tip of Skye, past Staffin which also had an FP church:At the North Western tip we believe we saw the ferry from Uig to Tabbert:And here Dunvegan castle. It is interesting...
View ArticleFodderty Lodge
I forgot to put some images of the cottage near Dingwall where we stayed: Fodderty Lodge. Here the front entrance:Here an overview of the entire house:The house has extensive gardens, where the kids...
View ArticlePortree
We had a nice home in Portree, as I've already posted:Interesting thing about Scotland in summer is that you can still use the hearth. And you must use it, temperatures of 15 degrees, in Summer, are...
View ArticleLewis & Harris
After having travelled over Skye a bit, we got a wild idea: Why not visit Lewis and Harris as well? We could perhaps do it in a single day! Because so many ministers of our church come from these...
View ArticleLeverburgh
We had a brochure of the Western Isles, with pictures of unbelievable beaches. Unfortunately we lost it, else I could demonstrate something, that, if you had seen it in the magazine, you thought would...
View ArticleVisit to the Campbell's
On Wednesday afternoon, August 12 we visited Alasdair's Mum and Dad. Not reachable per motor way:Somewhere down there, on the right, it is:This house will be a very familiar sight for some...
View ArticleHorse riding
Late in the afternoon we went horse riding, an activity AnneRoos quite looked forward to. The riding itself was a bit tame, but the environment will be hard to beat.And yes we know, most horses you see...
View ArticleGood bye Skye, good bye Scotland
On Thursday it was time to go home. We left at 9:30am, and were home at 18:30. That's indeed 33 hours, almost as long as to NZ. We first had to drive to Edinburgh, to get onto the ferry to Zeebrugge.So...
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