Just wanted to upload a couple of photos I took while on Skye, not great quality as they were taken with my phone. This is the croft we were staying in. A photo from Rubha Hunish looking out towards Isle of Lewis. Posted using the WordPress app on...
I’m off to Skye in a couple of weeks. A long awaited return to one of my most favourite places anywhere in the UK. My brother and I have rented a small croft on the northern end of the island, on the Trotternish peninsular. We have no plans other than...
I’m still injured, so I’m still filling my weekends by revamping my long distance walk journals with new photos and new layouts, which should hopefully enhance the reading experience. The Skye Trail from 2012 is the latest one to have magic wand waved over it and you can read about...
I’ve completed the write-up of my Skye Trail journal. You can find it here: Lonewalker’s Skye Trail Journal 2012 Please feel free to leave comments or questions below.
Many weeks ago, during our own separate preparations, Pete and I had arranged to meet up on the section of path between Dalavil and Ord. it would be his first day walking north from Armadale and my last, heading south to the same place; a bizarre coincidence that neither of...
I set out on the final day of the Skye Trail without the assistance of my brother, which was more upsetting than I thought it would be. I got to the car park at Armadale pier about 40 minutes before the bus arrived and I had some time to mooch...
Day seven dawned – well we assumed it dawned, we couldn’t actually see the sun and the wind was blowing a force seven at least; the waves were throwing themselves against our little beach like suicidal things. I’d heard the wind in the night, picking up from yesterday’s obviously quite...
Something strange had happened overnight. As we left the house this morning we noticed that something resembling a huge grey blanket had obscured the sun! We were both shocked and dismayed. We asked a local what it was and he called it a “clowd”. He said it like crowd, but...
Inevitably, the start of each day now gets further and further from our base of operations and as such we have to get up earlier and set out earlier. The journey to the start point, the Sligachan Hotel took us about 40 minutes, but I was still ready to go...
