The Scottish place of longing par excellence. Everyone wants to go to the Isle of Skye. Everyone talks about it. From home we get tips upon tips for the little island.
Skye itself is 80 km long and a little over 40 km at its widest point. It is also called the largest island of the inner hybrids. (Why does that word always make me think of haemorrhoids? There are inner and outer ones too, aren't there?)
So, back to Skye, we drive over the bridge (the mini-ferry seems to be out of service at the moment) and then comes the first thing worth noting: Hundreds of signs at the roadside. Here a café, there a B&B. Here a possibility to shop, there adventure excursions. After 5 minutes we are completely confused and cannot concentrate on nature. We had not expected this striking advertising jungle.
And we notice: we are and remain real country bumpkins.
We stop at a small pass road, make ourselves an early morning nap and rest our eyes. Gerd closed in bed, me half-meditating, looking at the rattling knitting needles.
Okay, we still had a small highlight: an old bridge, nice to look at. The coaches stop, empty out the snapping people, load them back in and on we go. So we do the same: get off, take pictures, take a little more time for a mini-hike, get back into our "fog" and head for Portree, the so-called capital of Skye.
Here we stroll through town (it's done quickly), look at the cute little harbour and strike up a conversation with two couples, each telling us "travel yarn" and sometime in the evening we have two invitations in our pocket: one to the Franconian Forest and one to Texas.
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Merci for "travelling with us
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