hopingtotravel

I was looking over some of the questions people are currently asking -- especially about Skye and Mull and realized this trip report had sunk so far they weren't discovering it. Hopefully some of this summer's questions are answered here.

We loved both Skye and Mull but when I look back, I think some of my favorite 'memory scenes' were in the wildly beautiful Torridon.

oliverandharry

Hopingtotravel, Just caught your comment in the Lounge on travel regrets and missing Harris, Lewis and the Standing Stones. We are set for next year but I will heed your advice - a friend said she spent a whole day at Callanish! Will report back.

GreenDragon

Callanish is amazing! If you can get there early in the morning, or later in the evening, you have a better chance of having it to yourselves

hopingtotravel

oliverandharry, I will be envious. When I started planning the trip five years ago, it was hard to juggle those ferry schedules into my itinerary because the Isle of Lewis had so many Sunday closures. Not sure if that's still the case.

However, with the itinerary I had, I would have needed to add at least another 3 days to my trip. And subsequent expenditures. During my planning time DH was dragging his heels, kicking and screaming. Now darn it, after both of us having read Peter May's trilogy taking place on Lewis, he also wishes we had gone there.

From my recollection in researching, there was a recommended b&b not too far from the stones, so you wouldn't have to drive to Stornoway late in the day.

GreenDragon

That would be nice. We stayed at Hal O' the Wynd in Stornoway - nice enough, but very basic. Good breakfast. Friendly hosts, right on the waterfront. But it is a good half hour drive or so to the stones from there. There is the Doune Braes Hotel, but that was a bit out of our price range... though we had lunch there once and the scallops were amazing.