We started our tour of Skye sights at midday as we needed to recover from the previous late night – for me 11pm was very late. We left Glenn to help Brendan put his solar panels up.

Lisa, Sean and I went through Broadford and Portree up to Uig on the west side of Skye.

The road to the Fairy Pools looked too narrow for a 7m motorhome so we continued north on the single track road.

We soon saw a tractor ahead who stopped for us in a passing place. Then a Porsche suddenly overtook the tractor and cars behind and ended up head to head with us. It took him a while to understand that we had nowhere to go and he had to reverse. This took ages as he was absolutely hopeless at it – requiring many back and forwards to straighten up. Everyone looked at him despairingly – especially his wife!

Eventually he got back onto his side of the road. The tractor gave us a friendly but tired wave – and at last we could go on our way.

We then stopped at the Iron Age Souterrain. It’s a 17m long stone clad underground tunnel used in the Iron Age for storing things – probably winter stores and particularly dairy products. It lead into the ruins of a round house. Only Sean got into it a couple of meters.

The next stop was the Museum of Island Life which was excellent.

There are around 8 little bothies that you go into. The first one we visited had been lived in until 1957 – which is really quite recent.

A family with 10 kids used to live in it with a main room, bedroom for kids with box beds where they used to sleep head to toe and a parents bedroom.

It had stone floors, 3 foot thick stone walls and thatched or turfed roofs.

We then continued to the other bothies containing lots of information on the history of Scotland and Skye. There were also bothies set up as a small shop, blacksmith, weavers and animal byte. It was an excellent introduction to Skye.

There were bus loads of American tourists who were streaming in the only door including one in a wheelchair who told us we were going the wrong way!

We then went up the hill to the old graveyard where Flora Macdonald is buried. She helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape the English soldiers dressed as a woman to get on a French ship back to Europe.

The knights gravestone was supposedly stolen from a Scottish king’s grave on Iona by ‘Stormy’ Angus Martin around the 1600s – a sailor and poet who married a Danish princess.

The fashion designer Alexander Mcqueens ashes are also here as he loved to visit Skye.

Next stop was the Kilt Rock Waterfall with great views – and quite a few tourists.

We also had our late 4pm lunch of biscuits and cheese and coffee- it hit the spot.

Reenergized the next stop was to get views of the Old Man of Storr. The large rock was disappearing into the mist and the reappearing. It’s quite spectacular.

Glenn and I climbed up there with Lorraine 2 years ago on a beautiful sunny day – very different from today. Here’s the evidence!

The next stop was Portree which was very picturesque wherever we looked.

We did some good selfie shots along the way.

We found the Old Man of Storr in Portree too!

It was getting late but we had one last stop at Sligachan to admire the mountains, the old bridge and statue of 2 of the first climbers – who named some of the mountains. They are looking towards the Cuilins where they are buried beside each other.

We then headed home to make dinner and have Brendan over. Lisa cooked up the fish cakes and green beans and peas while I carefully boiled Callum’s special Edzell Blue potatoes. It was all very delicious – especially the potatoes!

What a big day!!!