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- Back post office has much more interesting and varied stock than you might expect from the exterior.
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- It’s a curious fact that pretty much every small town in the UK has a Chinese takeaway at a roundabout. I forgot to ask Tosh what people form Harris say when they see roundabouts.
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- The prettier end of Lewis has sizeable communities of rather nice houses, along surprisingly busy roads.
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- Mr Lee, Sir, and Mrs Lee, Madam, photographed with just an ordinary phone held up in my ordinary hand. They were quite big, and quite close!
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- Leave the B895 to the east, into the housing, and you’ll find the Tolsta Head Trail signed along Camach Terrace. It’s a longer walk than you might think.
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- I wouldn’t rely on OsmAnd for navigation up Munros in winter, if I were you. In the real world, there is a yawning chasm between the blue blob (me) and where it alleges the north end of Lewis is.
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- A few Heath Spotted Orchids brightened the place up. A year previously on Cape Wrath I’d walked through thousands of these delicate blooms.
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- The road towards Lional (spelling varies) with Port of Ness behind and the Butt of Lewis lighthouse just on the horizon.
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- North Lewis architecture is low-rise but characterful. The triangles are a church and the concrete thing that looks like a North Korean missile platform is a bus stop.