Scotland and now especially the Hebrides are a paradise for us campers. We are so grateful that we can be self-sufficient for a week at a time, only having to fill up with water and take care of the grey water on the way. We are happy that our Felix does everything we want and that we get to such beautiful places. And we are especially grateful that we have "the most beautiful front garden" in the world.
There is something about lying in bed and looking at beautiful bays, green mountains or just watching the sheep (or what are the brown animals with the cuddly antlers called?). And: every day it's a surprise where we're going and what the morning will look like. Is it raining? Let's light some candles and have a cosy kaffle in the Felix house. If the sun is shining, we are immediately drawn out to discover our front garden. Then I pick a few flowers for our mini flower vase. Romanticism is a must (the flower pots in the van didn't work out so well).
Today we leave this beautiful campsite with a heavy heart. We dawdle around the island and suddenly discover one of the many "blackhouses", this time in Arnol. This traditional, fully furnished thatched house, once home to a Hebridean farming family and their animals, is preserved almost as the family left it when they moved out in 1965.
The fire is fed with peat, it smokes as if we were in a smokehouse. The doorways are apparently not made for our heights. Either people used to be so much smaller, they always walked hunched over, or the houses were shrunk afterwards.
The lady who guides us through the house writes about "small" living space, cramped conditions and that you could never avoid each other in the house. We look at each other and think, yes, just like in Felix โฃ๏ธ
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