Skye!!!

Well, it sure has been a while since I last bloged, no excuses really. Last week I was up in Skye camping, WOW the scenery... AMAZING!!!

I think previously Fort William is as north as I have been, however I have never before seemed to appreciate what I was driving through to get there. Loch Lomond is lovely but see it all to often, but when you cross into Glencoe, man its Amazing!!! A big bang my... foot. As we drove through Glencoe the music had to change from Glee and JLS (I'm not joking) to some worship tunes. Was awesome. It was sweet how the mountains reflected off of the the still loch. It looked really trippy and beautiful.

Any ways Skye was fun... not at first thou, took us hours to find a decent place to pitch our tents. After a few hours we found a sweet place, on the beach facing the mainland. Was a decent plot, we set up the tents, got a fire going and then a big daft Englishman showed up telling us to move as it was his land (thanks for waiting till we were all set up). This was about 8pm and it was starting to get dark... by the time we had packed up it was pitch black!!! We decided to head to Portree and we found a camp-site their. We pitched the tents and headed on the 2 mile journey back into town. We ended up in a wee pub in the square and got chatting to some Frenchies who were studying at Dundee. Turns out everything shuts at 10.30 their so after our 20 mins in the pub we started our trek back to the site. The road was pitch black, so the first car that went past I decided to thumb it and see what happened, I hadn't tried to hitch hike before... The guy stopped though an gave us a run back to the site, turns out though we were about 5 seconds away...

The next day we decided to do some touring of the island, we went to the castle (was nothing special) we went in and out the hills for miles (which was cool) and ended up at the distillery, we went in their and got a tour. Was really cool!

That night we ended up in the pub again in Portree this time there was a Gaelic folk band playing which was really cool. We sat down and some Basque people/terrorists started talking to us. They were telling us about their cause and kept rambling on in broken English for a while. Fun times...

The next day we came home and lived happily ever after