Drove south to Sligachan and turned west alongside Loch Harport, and more single track roads, to Portnalong (the end of the road). Back to the main road and north west to Dunvegan, turning off there to travel to Colbost, where the Three Chimneys restaurant (our lunch venue) was located. This part of Skye I found quite featureless, similar to the North in that there are obviously small lochs, it's quite hilly and there are numerous small villages / hamlets. It had rained quite hard for the first hour or so of this trip but dried up and remained dry for the rest of the day.
As we were early for lunch, I drove past the restaurant and decided to aim for Neist Point, right on the west coast and being on very narrow roads this took longer than I thought. Taking the wrong road too didn't help and as it was closing in on the 1.15 lunch time booking, I had to give up on that search and head back to the Three Chimneys.
This restaurant has been open for 40 years, has been listed in the world's top 50 restaurants and gained its first Michelin star last year. This is all the more amazing given that it lies 5 miles off the main road and is accessed via a single track road with passing places. Quite a bleak landscape and would not be very welcoming in the winter!
Delicious food and we had a really good 3 course lunch (during a relaxed 90 minutes) topped off with our dessert - hot marmalade pudding with drambuie custard. Beautiful!! See photo below.
And this is the restaurant itself, Janet standing outside it and the view from the restaurant.
100 miles driven today.
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