Tag Archives: Outer Hebrides
Touring the #OuterHebrides – day 9 – Lewis #Holiday #Scotland
I am so far behind with this series of posts, it’s now more than 6 months since we took this trip! This one does, however, cover the final day – phew! Lewis, like the other islands in the Outer Hebrides, still observes the religious habit of shutting all shops, outlets, cafes etc. on a Sunday. […]
Touring the #OuterHebrides – day 8 – Lewis #holiday #Scotland
I’m back in the Highlands this week, so it seemed an appropriate time to put together the last couple of posts from our epic tour of the Outer Hebrides. I’ve been a bit slow doing these two as there were just SO many photos and videos to sort through it was a bit daunting. What […]
Touring the Isle of Harris, #OuterHebrides day 7 #Scotland
Our second day on Harris was planned well in advance around a visit to the North Harris Eagle Observatory. I have seen a golden eagle once before, up on the north coast of Scotland, but this particular site has a resident pair and sightings are frequent, so with fingers firmly crossed, off we set. On […]
Touring the #OuterHebrides day 6 – Harris #holiday
Harris is a beautiful island, with two extraordinarily different coastlines. The home of the world famous HARRIS TWEED, you can’t help but notice that everywhere you go, you can’t avoid sheep! Naturally, they are pretty human-proof, and car-proof, so you need to remember to give way to them – don’t expect them to get out […]
#Holiday time – Touring the #OuterHebrides day 5 – North Uist
There have been so many other things to write about in the past few months, I failed to get through all my intended posts about my October tour of the Outer Hebrides, so I’m picking that up again now. Here we are, moving on from South Uist to North Uist. North Uist covers 117 square […]
#Holiday Time – Touring the Outer Hebrides day 3 – Barra to Eriskay #Scotland
Having woken to find the big ferry departed for the mainland, I checked the status of our smaller transport for the short 40 minute hop between islands. It still showed a warning of possible disruption due to the (still) strong winds, but we checked out of the hotel (they assured us there were plenty of […]
#Holiday time – touring the Outer Hebrides day 2 (Western Isles, #Scotland)
Having arrived on the island of Barra at 2am due to an 8 hour ferry delay, we really had no idea what to expect when we rose the next morning, by which time Hurricane Ophelia in full force. This was the view from our hotel window when we did finally rise You don’t get the […]
#Holiday time! Touring the Outer Hebrides (the Western Isles, #Scotland )
October is holiday time, and this year we (that’s me and Brian) decided to see – you guessed it – a bit more of Scotland, but this time with a difference. We toured the Outer Hebrides. For those who don’t know, this is the outer chain of islands, also known as the Western Isles, off […]
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