tolsta-head-walk-lewis-hebrides
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- Authentic Scottish lunch from Back post office.
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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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- It’s so flat north of Stornoway you could almost be in Suffolk. Oh OK, not really.
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- Peat cutting just outside Stornoway – even the most urban Hebrideans like a real fire.
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- Perfect habitat, tall trees at the head of a burn flowing down to a rocky beach.
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- Leafy Stornoway
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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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- The unlikely picnic table.
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- Thursday night is curry night on Tolsta Head
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- Perfect for a small tent!
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- A room with a view.
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- Traigh Mhor, to the north, from Tolsta Head.
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- Rather alarming Japanese Knotweed at Tolsta.
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- ‘Where is this famous Bridge to Nowhere?’ I hear you cry. Somewhere in the middle of that picture.
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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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- Standing at the blue blob, yawning chasm behind me…
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- The lighthouse from Dun Eistean. Yes, it’s still a bit of a hike.
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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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- Port of Ness
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- The Wee Hoose (helpfully named as such on the lintel).
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- The Lionel Peat Road, which leads, unsurprisingly, to Lionel.
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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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- Be careful round here in poor visibility!
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- Dun Eistean
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- Dawn view from my private picnic table.
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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.
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- Looking back to Tolsta Head from above Traigh Mhor.
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