Qirang

June 3, 1999.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A popular destination on the Isle of Skye for climbers

Duntulm

June 3, 1999.Reading time 2 minutes.

Craggy ruins on a small rocky spit of land on the Isle of Skey

Travelogue: Day 20

June 3, 1999.Reading time 8 minutes.

Wandering around the lovely island of Skye, with tropical gardens and misty mountain ranges

Lochmaben

June 2, 1999.Reading time 3 minutes.

Piles of rocks, massive foundation walls, and lots of mossy grass cover this ruinedcastle built by the English in the 14th century

Measach Falls

June 2, 1999.Reading time 1 minute.

In the steep, wooded Corrieshalloch Gorge, the Falls of Measach plunge nearly 150 feet.

Isle of Skye

June 2, 1999.Reading time 1 minute.

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone
Say, could that lad be I?
Merry of soul he sailed on a day
Over the Sea to Skye

Signs

June 2, 1999.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Sheep in the road (and one rather artistic rhino — and frogs? My all time favorite ‘Oncoming vehicles in middle of road’, and the all-too-common ‘!’ sign — we decided it meant ‘surprise in road!”

Dunvegan

June 2, 1999.Reading time 3 minutes.

Home of the clan Macleod Museum and amazing tropical gardens

Travelogue: Day 19

June 2, 1999.Reading time 6 minutes.

Down the western highlands, and across the water to Skye

Tarbet and Foindle

June 1, 1999.Reading time 1 minute.

I’ll admit that we wandered off down this little tiny road for two reasons — one: you have to drive somewhere where there are not one, but two, signs warning you about the Bull. Two: You just have to visit a place called FOINDLE.