Last week of hodilays.

[littleshebear]

Spent a week in Lewis, had a look at the Lewis Chessmen (and it was nice to see them IN Lewis, y'know?), saw the Callanis standing stones, q totally awesome broch and then wild camped for a few days down by a beach beside q blackhouse village.

Spent last week at a campsite on Harris which has a couple of restored blackhouses serving Aw the toilet/

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[luinar]

BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR WHEN YOU NEXT CHECK IN! XXXXXX

[isis_whit]

Belated Happy Birthday! Your holiday sounds beautiful so far. :D

[katy_did]

Hope you don't mind me asking, but the beach by the village where you camped wouldn't happen to be Bosta beach on the North-West edge of Lewis would it? If so then eeeee pretty beach! But then they're all so pretty...

[littleshebear]

No, it was the bay down beside the Garenin blackhouse village. But yeah, most of the beaches on Lewis and Harris are gorgeous. We camped at Horgabost on Harris a couple of years ago and that beach is just incredible (the only thing that marred it were the hordes of screaming children that descended on the weekend).

I really need to pull my finger out and do a proper entry about the trip with pictures. I'm so lazy lately.

And, apropos of nothing, I had a peek at your profile and noticed you're fellow St.Andrews survivor. *waves!* You started the year I finished.

[katy_did]

I asked as my boyfriend and I went to visit his Granddad's grave - which is just up a bit from Bosta Beach. We also went swimming there. Well, he did. I waded to knee deep in my bikini and scarf and exchanged wary glances with a mink. It had a herring in its' mouth and a look that said it wasn't going to share.

Never got down to Harris though - it's on the list!

Ahh St Andrews. Joyeous place and I miss it but going back is so very strange. It's not the same without the people you know being there.