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Our trip to the Hebrides 1980
On board the car-ferry from Ullapool to the Hebrides. Drove through Stornaway, Callanish (the Scots Stonehenge) and Tarbert as we crossed the islands of Lewis and Harris. Glad to have gotten used to driving on the "wrong side" of the road when we'd driven to Urqhart Castle on Loch Ness a few days earlier. Had also become used to going around sheep - on the mainland they slept on the sides of the road, walked across it in groups and sometimes just stood on it. But in the Hebrides, sheep were in the heather, on the hillsides, jumping on and off of the road (besides standing or sleeping on the road). We saw thousands of them.
Pinecone:
ReplyDeleteI have at least three fragmented memories of Ullapool:
--We ate at a restaurant whose food was better than that served by Cunard.
-- There were palm trees.
-- And there were the Scottish midges (most annoying).
Laszlo’s