Day 42: Friday 20th May 2022
Today we were able to travel to the Isle of Skye! It wasn’t as many miles for the journey today, but we left around 9.30.
The journey was good, we travelled round the other side of Loch Carron for a while before following the road up and down some steep hills! In the ‘Places Of Poetry’ book, another poem featured was “The Road To Skye”, so we stopped by Loch Alsh with the Skye Bridge in sight in order to read this.
Crossing the bridge was fun! We then followed the same road all the way to Portree. From what we saw, it looked beautiful, although the heavy rain did mean that the impact was lost on us a little! With nice weather, I imagine the scenery is incredible - we were driving past both the coast and peaks with lots of natural waterfalls/ rivers. We hope for nicer weather on our drive back so we can fully appreciate it.
We arrived at the campsite at 11.30, and able to check in early as we had really booked the pitch from yesterday. Once we had settled in (using our chocks for the first time - a big achievement for us!) we walked to Portree despite the rain.
Portree was nice, a helpful tourist information office for some information on walks, and some nice shops. We had a burger and chips and half a cake each in a really good cafe too, before heading home.
The weather isn’t forecast to be that nice for the next few days, but we look forward to having two full days here.
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