The Isle of Skye

It was bucketing with rain as we crossed the bridge onto the Isle of Skye. Water was cascading down the mossy rocks. We stopped in Portree and took a room in the hostel. In spite of the close quarters (we all shared bunks in the one room) the hostel was memorable. We drank whisky from the Oban distillery and played cards late into the early evening in the humid, industrious kitchen.

We decided to take our rest day on the Isle of Skye, but still managed to clock up a couple of hundred miles driving around the island (we ended up covering over 1,000 miles in total). The Isle of Skye with its dramatic scenery is a must see. In one fine day we saw beautiful geological formations, waterfalls, inspiring ruins, expansive peat fields, and of course a hairy coo (below).




I know we already have a photo by a waterfall but I thought this one was particularly fun.




No trip to Scotland would be complete without the obligatory distillery tour, which we took at Talisker on the Isle of Skye (below). I was very interested to see the processes and to taste the end product, of course. With a belly full of warm whisky, we made our way back to Portree listening to the chilled-out tunes of "BJ-the-DJ".