Travel update: On Skye

**Graham** · 18th July 05, 09:31 AM

Sorry lads, I have no hope of catching up with all the posts, paying the high price for net access in Scotland, it's all I can do to check email.

However, I can say that keyboards here have flippin small shift keys, and that we are safe and well. We hired a VW Golf and we're zooming around Scotland.

We spent time with David (Freelander), his lovely wife and kids in Inverness. We spent some time in town (David bought a lovely kilt jacket) before going to Culloden and walking around the filed together. Sorry I cannot post piccies for a while.

Now on Skye, it's a wonderful place, amazing mountians.

Being kilted is interesting....
On Orkney the response was dissappointing, but frankly, I found the locals quite unfriendly.
Skye is much the same, but friendlier. Tourists see me and want to take photos just as when they see a Scottish sheep or longhorn cow...they see me as an 'authentic bit of Scotland'.

Near Loch Ness I saw a guy casually kilted walking down the road, I shook his hand, later to find he worked in a fine Clan Centre. My wife said 'there, it's his uniform' :

Near a Skye Castle I met heaps of men in kilts, they were there for a clan gathering.

that's about all I've seen for now.
I have found the kilt a wonderful garment for travelling, hiking in Scotland (even in cold wet, windy weather). My wife is wearing jeans, and after getting caught in a storm she ended up with wet pants. |Me, in a kilt, felt fine

More later when I can, make sure no one overtakes my post record or I'll 'ave'em :-D ;) behave all!

**Graham** · 18th July 05, 09:34 AM

PS we've been to two distillerys, Highland Park, on oRKNEY and Talisker on Skye.

We didn't do the tourist tours and frankly I can buy the whisky cheaper in local shops, bit dissappointing really.

**Colin** · 18th July 05, 10:14 AM

Sounds like a wonderful trip so far Graham. I really enjoyed Skye and the area around Drumnadrochit and Inverness.

**Riverkilt** · 18th July 05, 11:41 AM

Ah Graham, 'tis the land of my forefathers.

They moved from Uig to Staffin up on the Trotternish Peninsula above Skye before being shipped to Nova Scotia in the clearances...

Waiting on a rare tartan fabric, Macdonald of Kingsburgh, for Kathy Lare to sew up another traditional tartan fabric. That tartan is as close to my ancestoral homeland as I can get.

And you're there...sob....

Jeez, just realized...if I hadn't spent so much for so many kilts I could probably have gone to Scotland myself!!

Cruel irony.

Glad you're enjoying your jaunt about the globe.

Ron

**Kiltedmusiclover** · 18th July 05, 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by Graham

PS we've been to two distillerys, Highland Park, on oRKNEY and Talisker on Skye.

We didn't do the tourist tours and frankly I can buy the whisky cheaper in local shops, bit dissappointing really.

Graham,

Sounds like you are having a great time.
Skye truly is a beautiful place. You really should take one of the tourist tours.
I learned quite a bit about the making of whisky and its particulars.
You will be find that it is a little more expensive while you are there.
I made sure that I bought some whisky I could not get at home.
I only break it out of Special occasions. :mrgreen:

**David in Maryland** · 18th July 05, 03:41 PM

I would love to go to Skye in 2006 for the MacLeod clan gathering at Castle Dunvegan.

**Rufus** · 19th July 05, 07:38 AM

Originally Posted by Colin

Sounds like a wonderful trip so far Graham. I really enjoyed Skye and the area around Drumnadrochit and Inverness.

Name dropper! ;) And poor David's not even around for a few weeks to see it!

I'm glad to hear that Graham's trip is going so well, and that he's even surviving small shift keys. ;)

**GMan** · 19th July 05, 09:23 AM

Even with the small keys, and the paying for net access he still has two posts already on this thread alone.

Glad that you are having a good time Graham. Oh and David I am sorry that Colin is rubbing it in!

Have a good rest of a trip Graham.

**Colin** · 19th July 05, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by GMan

Even with the small keys, and the paying for net access he still has two posts already on this thread alone.

Glad that you are having a good time Graham. Oh and David I am sorry that Colin is rubbing it in!

Have a good rest of a trip Graham.

How am I rubbing it in, He's actually over there, and I am stuck at home