Outer Hebrides

We went to the out hebrides for our honeymoon in 2005. We drove to Inverness, stayed the night there, onto to Skye and then Harris up through to Lewis. What a long trip but what a stunning journey. The landscape is unbelievable. Rugged yet gentle with the sweeping clouds through the spiky mountains. The roads are like something out of a film, twisting and turning with a new view at ever turn. We stayed at Gearrannan Blackhouses which are traditional blackhouses which have been converted into tourist cottages and a youth hostel. Leave your car at the car park and then walk down to your cottage where there is underfloor heating and everything else you need. TV, fully ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review