THINGS TO SEE AND DO ON SKYE

Portree In the local town you will find all the shops and services you are likely to require during your stay. There are supermarkets, butchers (for the Haggis), garages, newsagents, pharmacists, fast-food (fish+chips, Stevie's Chinese, Indian), churches, bookshops and Post Office for all your day-to-day needs.

For entertainment there are restaurants, pubs, swimming baths, a Gymnasium at the Royal Hotel; shops for crafts, antiques, clothing and leisurewear, fishing tackle, cameras and film, videotapes and film hire, hardware, flowers; regular concerts and ceilidhs (dances) at the Community Centre, Aros and other venues.

Aros Heritage Centre is just outside Portree. There is a craft and book shop, large restaurant and bar, the beautiful Talla Somhairle auditorium including cinema showing the latest movies, and forest walks. Aros

Skeabost House Country House Hotel Much nearer to the Cottage, a five-minute walk along the old road, is the beautiful old mansion house that was once the home of a branch of the MacLeod family. This is where Effie Murchison worked fifty and more years ago. Now a top-class hotel, as well as providing high quality accommodation you can call in for drinks in the bars and fine food in the Restaurant or Conservatory (Tel: <01470> 532 202). Fishing Golf

St Columba's Isle On your stroll down to the Skeabost, on your right just before the gate by the Olde Poste House (private house), you will find a newly laid path which takes you down by the river side, across a wooden bridge onto the tiny islet named after an early inhabitant - St Columba, Colum Cille.

Here there are the remains of a small chapel, dwellings and graveyard known to have been built by St Columba. It is a solitary place, not well known about, and worth visiting to spend a few quiet moments.

Views from the Cottage You don't have to leave the Cottage to be able to admire the tops of the Black Cuillins (15 miles away), Ben Tianavaig (420m high) which overlooks Portree, or the winding River Snizort. Walking up the lanes nearby will open up the view of the soft side of the Trotternish Ridge. From here you should spot the Outer Hebrides (Harris and Lewis) and, at the right time of day, the most spectacular sunsets.

A small selection of things to see and do on Skye

A thatched blackhouse - what the cottage would have looked like 200 years ago

A cottage at the Museum of Highland Life, Kilmuir

  • Dunvegan Castle (MacLeods), Clan Donald Centre (MacDonalds)

  • An Tuireann Art Gallery and Restaurant, Portree

  • Horse riding - Portree Riding Stables at Peinness near Portree and Suladale

  • Scuba diving - Portree, Stein; Whitewave Activities - Kilmuir

  • Uig Pottery - Uig

  • Skye Brewery - Uig

  • The Crafts Shop - Kilmuir

  • Talisker Distillery - Carbost

  • Flora MacDonald's grave and the Museum of Highland Life - Kilmuir

  • Skyeskyns - Waternish

Edinbane, July - Folk Festival

Portree in August - Skye Highland Games and Skye Agricultural Show
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