We had decided to take a trip round the north of Skye and left the hotel about 9.45am. There is only one road up the eastern side of the north tip of Skye, which then wends its way down the western side back down to Portree. This road passes through Staffin on the east side and Uig on the west and the landscape is quite barren and rocky and becomes quite flat the further north you go. All along this road circling the northern part of the island there were quite a few small communities of a dozen or so houses - there were very few isolated properties.
At the start of the trip, we had a very heavy rain shower but as had been usual on our way round Scotland, it was quite brief in duration and the further north we went the brighter and sunnier it got. We were back at our hotel at 11.30am having driven 52 miles.
On the road up to Staffin
Uig Bay
We had lunch in Portree and then back for a drink in our hotel bar. Eating again at our hotel tonight as the food here seems as good as anywhere else in Portree.
I've also now booked a B&B in Lochearnhead for Friday night, as during that day we are planning to travel from here to the Glenfinnan Viaduct and on through Glencoe. About 4/5 hours driving and probably enough for one day. This leaves a 2 hour drive home to Peebles on Saturday.
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