LOCHMADDY, NORTH UIST

This last few days I have been to one of the most beautiful corners on Earth.

Above is Kilmuir Church, where we celebrated the service for Donnie's Funeral.

Nigel and Clare are good friends who are from there and also came along...

North Uist is one of the Hebrides Islands also known as Western Isles. To get there you fly to Benbecula from Glasgow on Flybe or take the ferries from Oban or Skye on the mainland. Most Islands are linked by single lane roads. The beaches are beautiful. There are lots of lakes with a dark blue water. All the inhabitants know each other and live in houses scatered all over, there are no town centres or high streets... Around 1976 households were still getting electricity for the first time! Most amazing was the wildlife, the white sand, no trees, the salmon, the gaelic, the unbelievable night sky and the sound of silence. Must go back there. Soon.


Lochmaddy

a little visitor!

Donnie´s cottage, below:

Nigel and Isa, Donnie´s wife, and Isa´s sister Mary Anne, and neighbour Michelle, and Isa´s brother Angus and Nigel´s wife Claire:


see you soon, North Uist...