Vatersay
2 septembre 2019, Écosse ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Day 1, weather awful blowing a gale and lashing down with rain so Danni and i decided to make a start today instead of tomorrow. Slipped off a rock and swan dived 6 feet - nice soft landing in a bog.En savoir plus
Barra and Eriskay
3 septembre 2019, Écosse ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Weather still awful at the start of the day but scenery magnificent! Went a bit off piste to avoid a very boggy section. Ferry ride to Eriskay and entertained by two passengers playing their musicalEn savoir plus
South Uist and Eriskay
4 septembre 2019, Écosse ⋅ 🌧 12 °C
A northerly gale blowing so Danni & I decided the sensible thing to do would be to walk north from my house southwards to Eriskay where Ian would pick us up and take us back home 😊 At least the sunEn savoir plus
South Uist continued
5 septembre 2019, Écosse ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Askernish to Loch Druidibeg. Cool and breezy but much improved on yesterday. A pretty flat walk today the first part along the stunningly beautiful west coast then heading east into the moorlandEn savoir plus
South Uist to Benbecula
6 septembre 2019, Écosse ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Ian dropped us off at Loch Druidibeg and we followed our own route rather than the “official” route as that would have been way too boggy. We headed over to the west coast and walked our wayEn savoir plus
Disaster strikes
7 septembre 2019, Écosse ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Dropped Danni at the Dark Island Hotel to resume her walk, meanwhile, having woken up looking like Daffy Duck i headed time see the emergency dentist who diagnosed an abscess 😭 he did a littleEn savoir plus
North Uist
8 septembre 2019, Écosse ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
A very dreich day, Danni headed off first thing and i packed up and left the fab bunkhouse at Moorcroft. I headed round to meet Danni at Langass and had a short walk to meet her. Still feel pretty offEn savoir plus
North Uist, Berneray, Harris
9 septembre 2019, Écosse ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Danni set off and decided to stick to the road all the way to Berneray as the amount of rain will make the moorland sections pretty nasty! Walked back to meet Danni. Got the lunchtime ferry across theEn savoir plus
Harris and a yurt
10 septembre 2019, Écosse ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
A storm is coming in later so Danni headed up the Golden Road along the east side of Harris rather than the longer more exposed west coast route and then over the Coffin Road. We got settled down inEn savoir plus
Tarbert, Harris
11 septembre 2019, Écosse ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
A short day for Danni walking and i mostly drank coffee. Saw the Ozzie guy Neil who is still going strong and still heading north.
Scaladale
12 septembre 2019, Écosse ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
I’m feeling much better now so i parked up and walked up into the hills to meet Danni, spectacular scenery and i saw two Golden Eagles overhead. We stayed overnight at the Scaladale Hostel and wereEn savoir plus
Balallan - Lewis
13 septembre 2019, Écosse ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Weather pretty rough and another storm is forecast to come in tomorrow so Danni took the opportunity to get as far as she could. If we were both still on foot we would be a bit stuffed! We’d alreadyEn savoir plus
Stornoway - the end!
14 septembre 2019, Écosse ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
An awful day weather wise and we were very glad that we hadn’t got to walk 18 miles in torrential rain and winds gusting to 50mph. I dropped Danni at Achmor then went and dropped the van at LewsEn savoir plus
