Skye: The details

Gill and I had planned a trip to Skye a couple of years ago, but the travel gods conspired against us and we didn't make it, so this year we decided to reschedule.

We invited the lovely 10-year old Sarah along with us, and she agreed to come.  Everything was planned out.  They would take the train(s) up to Inverness, I would pick them up and we would continue on to Skye.  

I made the arrangements.  I had a bit of frustration trying to find a hotel that would allow non-adults, apparently this is UK thing and I found it fairly irritating, but I found a place on the south end of the island.

The general plan was to tackle one portion of the island each day with a mix of tourist attractions, shopping and random stops.  We had planned a whale watching boat trip, but a recent 'incident' with Gill and a boat had Sarah and I reconsider the necessity of a boat trip.

Blog note: I have spent HOURS trying to create a map for this stupid blog to mark the locations of the places I go, but no matter what I do I can't seem to get something I can mark and then embed or link.  This should not be that hard!!!!!

Skye is connected to mainland Scotland by the Skye bridge - clever!  This bridge is very unpopular with the locals - they think it's ugly.  I really thought it was quite beautiful and certainly makes getting to Skye a bit easier than the ferry, which I think is the real issue with the locals.

I did not take this photo.  This was one of our lessons about Skye - they seem to have an interpretation of distance.  There would be a sign that would say viewing area in 250 yards, but you would pull in and in fact you couldn't see anything.  Then a mile later there would be a viewing area.

The bridge is really elevated.  I'd dreamt that Sarah and I screamed all of the way across the bridge and Gill sat in the back shaking her head and shouting shut up - this did not actually happen on our crossing.