Sunday 22nd June

This morning I had (almost) three delicious pancakes with Maple Syrup, strawberries and blueberries!  The owner of this B&B was really nice, funny and chatty, someone you would like to adopt as your auntie or grandmother!

Bellies full, today we travelled from Dunvegan in the north of Skye to Ardvasar in the South.  The drive was broken up by a visit to a small Broch, or rather remains of a Broch, and then we went onward towards Clan Donald Skye.  En route, we had a decent view of the Red Cullins, although the cloud was coming in.  We decided to go along a different road in order to get a good view of the Black Cullins, but by the time we were half way around the clouds had rolled in again and it was beginning to rain. The weather forecast actually had the whole of Skye underneath a giant rain cloud, but as it happened, we didn't experience much of it at all!  However, we could definitely see the edge of the Black Cullins getting hazier under the rain (we assumed it was rain), so we turned back and headed on to Clan Donald Skye, a ruined country house in Armadale which was abandoned by the MacDonalds who used to own it.  There is now a museum which tells the history of the place and extensive gardens for visitors to walk around covering a total of 20,000 acres overall.

When we arrived, we decided to walk around the gardens first before looking at the museum.  I got hungry at around 1:30 which meant that the pancakes had filled me up till then since 8am!!  I had a similar thing happen in Canada with waffles...!  I had leek and potato soup and Mathew had a leek, brie and cheddar tart.  We continued to look at the museum, and afterward we still had a little time to spare so we went back in and ordered a pot of tea each and a chocolate brownie to share.  Afternoon tea, how very British!!

Onwards we went to our next B&B called 'Sonas' which was very quiet and understated but comfortable. This evening we had bought ourselves some sandwiches and a salad to have instead of going out for food as there weren't many places nearby plus it was Sunday which meant that they would have been either busy or closed.  Still, we enjoyed our 'picnic tea' before heading off to bed.