Hebrides

Doon frae Troon said:
Please do not watch this new series.

We have recently discovered the Hebrides as a holiday location and wish to keep it to ourselves.
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never heard of it, but I'll look out for it now, I'll pass to all the Butlins crowd and organise a mass holiday there this year :rolleyes:

P.S it's the one place I've seen people engulfed in black flies and midges :eek:
 
DarthVega said:
never heard of it, but I'll look out for it now, I'll pass to all the Butlins crowd and organise a mass holiday there this year :rolleyes:

P.S it's the one place I've seen people engulfed in black flies and midges :eek:
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Quite right, the midges are absolutely awful. They only tend to bite the tourists though.
On the days when there are no midges it is either pouring with rain and blowing a gale, well, that is according to the EBC weather programme and they are usually always right.

A London person wanted to know where the nearest train station was to see the big stones in a circle.
Reply was Mallaig which amused me.

Whilst on holiday in deepest Mull a Geordie Lass asked me if I knew where the nearest Bingo hall was. I think I replied Glasgow.
 
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Unfortunately my annual visits to the Inner and Outer Hebrides are long over due.

Got to go to Islay. Barra and Benbecula in the next month or so. :(
 
Have a week on Harris planned later in the year. Staying in a cottage near scarista beach and the golf course. Hoping to surf, golf and climb some hills... Total lottery weather wise but you never know your luck.

Love the islands, visited tiree, mull, islay, Lewis and Harris in the last few years.
 
Going to Harris/South Lewis next week, staying at an old blackhouse on the east coast with five foot walls.
The East coast is like a moonscape with thousands of lochans and lichen covered rocks.
Weather looks ok.
 
My family on my father's side is from Tiree. Got heaps of relatives out there and plan to go out there this summer. Will try and have a knock around their little 9 hole golf course - now we are talking flat.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
My neighbour has a cottage on Tiree.
Sunniest spot in the UK she keeps telling me.
Must go one day.
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Fantastic place - you should definitely go. The perfect spot to drop off the face of the earth for a few days and recharge the batteries. Great for watersports, too, it's where I first learned to surf.

Supposedly it is the sunniest place in the UK.... but don't think that means it'll be warm!
 
FairwayDodger said:
Fantastic place - you should definitely go. The perfect spot to drop off the face of the earth for a few days and recharge the batteries. Great for watersports, too, it's where I first learned to surf.

Supposedly it is the sunniest place in the UK.... but don't think that means it'll be warm!
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Correct on all counts - I had family holidays with crofter relatives almost all of my childhood and early-mid teens - glorious - before the surfers arrived :)

And yes - sunniest place in the UK in May - but who said warm. Also Guinness Book of Records will tell you it is also the windiest - with average daily windspeed of 17mph (so when it is very windy it is VERY VERY windy). Not surprising that there are basically no trees. Another world to that in which most of us live - and one that we should be very careful to protect and nurture rather than exploit and unthinkingly destroy.
 
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