Na h-Eileanan Siar

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This summer we should have been holidaying in Chicago and staying with friends in Angola Indiana
But due to covid we had to make do with the Outer Hebrides on Scotlands wild Atlantic coast

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The beaches are amazing and you get them all to yourself

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The sea food isn't bad too

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Uig Sands restaurant in the middle of nowhere,the drive to get there was somthing else

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The mountains of Harris

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Callanish standing stones are over 5,000 years old

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The not so old victorian lews castle

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Gearrannan Black House Village traditional hebridean
houses

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The capital of the islands is Stornaway it's a wee bit rough around the edges

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But Stornaway has a few nice buildings

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