Day 28: 6th April – Hello Blue Sky – Na rathaidean fada, lùbach tro Chuimrigh agus Alba

Today’s trivia on Skye:

Skye from PAW Patrol has never been to Skye
The Isle of Skye is Scotland’s largest Inner Hebridean island.
Skye was once a subtropical land during the Jurassic period, leaving behind numerous fossils and dinosaur footprints.
It is famous for the Black Cuillin mountain range (with 12 Munro peaks) and the 160-foot tall Old Man of Storr monolith.
The name “Skye” originates from Norse words ski (cloud) and ey (island), reflecting its misty reputation.
The island is home to around 10,000 people and approximately 100,000 sheep.
It is famous for the Fairy Pools and Highland cattle (“hairy coos”).
Dunvegan Castle has been the seat of Clan MacLeod for 800 years, making it the oldest continuously inhabited castle in Scotland.
Bonnie Prince Charlie arrived on Skye in 1746 disguised as a serving maid to escape after the Battle of Culloden. Flora MacDonald, who helped him, is buried at Kilmuir.
The Skye Bridge, which replaced a famous ferry, opened in 1995, linking the island to the mainland for free.
About one-third of the population speaks Gaelic
There are a lot of songs with Skye in the title but all are misspelled!

I asked for avocado and poached egg, with the egg, hard please . . .

We chatted with the waitress, who asked where are we heading back to? We’re not heading back anywhere, we are going forwards! Another blank look. Said off to Skye, she said she comes from Skye and the Tongadale Pub is really good, her daughter Kaitlyn works there. She also asked where are we staying, said the Skeabost. Oh, that’s a very nice hotel she said.

We decided, well me actually, that we’ll take the long way to Skye.

At Connel, not to far away . . .

HGiT, we arrived at the Corren-Ardgour ferry, last in queue just as boarding started and we were the last car on. We desperately needed a 🚽 but non on board.

What a relief at the other end at the The Inn on the Ardgour side of the Loch Linnhe. I’m still in awe of the amount of ‘HGiT’ occurrences we are having. Someone is looking down upon us.

The roads are single lane and windy all the way. Slow going but nice scenery.

Again we needed a 🚽, so stopped at the Glenuig Inn for a coffee and 🚽but it was a 🚫 but they did have rooms.and sheep!

The Lochailort Inn not only had rooms, they had coffee, crisps, aka chips but, no cakes as currently in the oven. So we had a Lemon Posset. We were the only ones there.

They’ve only recently reopened after winter break and trying to get the word out. Bit lost on us as only passing and don’t know anyone localish, let alone in the whole of Scotland. Actually we do know Ben, Dawn and soon Kautlyn!

The plan was to check out the Glenfinnan Railway Viaduct but all carparks were full and the crowds 😱😱😱😱. As we’ve seen viaducts before without the crowds we moved right along.

but it looks a lot like this, minuses the steam train

At Fort William, the holiday crowds and traffic greeted us along with a 10min wait at the Tesla Supercharging station, not that I needed to charge but better safe than sorry. There’s also EZO charges that were available without delay, but 150% more expensive. I still need tonget a handle on the energy usage. In UK do many hours driving but low mileage, where’s back home it’s lots of kilometres in not much time.

On the way . . .

there was more snow than our bestest season!

No, HGiT. Red light and no oncoming cars!

on skye there was Eas a’ Bhradain falls on the way to the hotel . . .

At the hotel, the Skeabost House built in 1872, it became apparent that I booked the wrong room . . .

I said to the receptionist bathroom is to big. She looked at me blankly and then said can put you in another room with smaller bathroom, but no bath but bigger room. I said we’ll suffer.