Outer Hebrides

A unforgettable place which is like beauty and the beast. Once you have been you would never forget the expansive clean beaches, the remote moors and the loneliness of the place. But there is a twist and one which alters your perception altogether. Only ever holiday there, as a tourist you will be treated like royality, everyone will speak to you and make your stay pleasant. Never move to live there, no matter how many times you have been on holiday there you will never be accepted, your status will be incomer. In the local paper there was an obituary for a man who had lived there since he was a young boy. It read "Though he was a ...

Innse Gall, Nah-Eileanan an Iar, the Long Island, whatever you call them, the name always conjures up images of pure wilderness, wild hairy Vikings running up and down the peaty moorland and the inevitable rain. Well it is that and so much more. As it is the last inhabited post between the UK and America, the islands are subject to extremes of both weather and isolation. It acts as a shelterbelt for the West coast of Scotland, prtecting it from the worst of the gales and the seas, and in that fact lies the islands vunerability. They are totally dependant on the ferry and air services for the tourism which provides the islands with one of their ...