I started heading towards the village, situated along one narrow lane. Along the way, I passed many more of the little stone storage huts, called cleit or cleitean (plural) and the factor´s house. St. Kilda had existed for centuries without much contact with the rest of the world, the islands were inhabited for around 2000 […]
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There was also a surprise waiting for us in St Kilda, it actually is inhabited – there is a military station right on the beach. When we were visiting in 2021 there were almost finished with building the new houses, which were more in line with the landscape. This tiny hut is older though, there […]
Early morning in Harris It was a very. very early morning for me, but it was so worth it! I was lucky enough to go on a day trip to St. Kilda – the magical island in the Atlantic ocean I had read so much about. This was the important phone call I had to […]