Arvi ja Leah aeg reisimiseks: Road trip to the Isle of Skye

So I learnt how to drive a manual car! We hired a little Fiat hire car (so manly) and well, I had to learn fast. After a couple of crunching gears and several stalls at lights, I was getting the hang of things. So we had an epic road trip in front of us.

Little Fi the Fiat was comfy

Out the front window mountains everywhere

Driving along in my automobile

A ‘5 hour’ journey up to the Isle of Skye, an island situated northwest of Scotland. Wow. What a picturesque journey it was. An hour out of Glasgow is Loch Lammond National park, a massive stretch of water between two mountains, with green canopies covering the windy road that snakes all along the bottom of the western side.

snack stop at Fort William

Leah also got to test her map reading skills directing me to different little towns for a couple of stop over’s during our trip. 5 hours is what goggle maps told us the trip would take and factoring in our stops we thought we were travelling at a good pace. In total our trip took 8 hours and well worth it with views like these…

so many parking places for amazing photos

So many Mountains

So our first full day we set off for the beach and to hike around Glen Brittle. Again, amazing views and a fun hike. With there being no such thing as trespassing in the Isle of Skye, we could basically walk anywhere we wanted, as long as we closed the gates and didn't chase the sheep (very hard for Leah). We started by following the track for a while then we ventured off a little to walk higher up to some hills and follow some waterfalls. We walked and walked and walked over hills and trudged through bogs just like something from Lord of the rings. After some lunch we drove to the Fairy Pools, beautiful clear waters falling down waterfalls every 30 metres. We walked along this track for 40 minutes finding perfect swimming spots along the way.

Fresh mountain water

Fairy Pools so clear

walking towards huge mountains alongside the Fairy Pools

Chilling in the Fairy Pools

Clear waters

There are a lot of single lane roads in Skye with lots of passing points (made me think why couldn’t they just make it all wider). It gave me a lot of practice with changing down gears and lots and lots of hill starts. We drove all around the north of the Isle that afternoon, had a pub dinner and slept very well that night in our hostel.

Loch Eynort

On our last day we drove to a place called Kilmarie to walk over a hill to a secluded beach. The walk took about an hour and a half each way but was very relaxing as we ate our lunch in the sun next to a river that led to the sea. That afternoon, we drove around the west of the island while Leah was yelling out the window at the sheep.