The Unmemorable Castle

I thought I was forgetting something. Between Islay and Fort William we stayed in a "castle" (19th Century manor house). It had pretty public spaces, which we didn't use at all. Also wifi we couldn't get to work, because castles don't have wifi, asshole.

Also had surprisingly excellent seafood in a restaurant in the town nearby.

I think maybe this was the day we went to Easdale a tiny island only a stone's throw from the mainland. One of the Slate Islands, there were quarries everywhere and the gravel on the roads was slate.

Skye & Kyle

We drove out to the Isle of Skye and around it. There are a few farms, but it's very wild there, and mostly devoid of trees except where they've been planted in farms. We headed back over the bridge, which the proprietor of our B&B in Fort William told us used to be a toll bridge and people protested for years by not paying and being arrested until finally they made it free. Stayed in a hotel in Kyle, which was a wholly unremarkable little town where we had unremarkable dinner and left in the morning for Inverness.