I was in for a special treat – the Eriskay Pony Society offered a guided walk to see the ponies during the “Outer Hebrides Wildlife Festival”. I crossed the causeway from South Uist to Eriskay and met the rest of the group in front of the Eriskay shop and up the hill we went. It […]
Cladh Hallan is a Bronze Age settlement in South Uist and it is the only location in the UK where prehistoric mummies have been found. Cladh Hallan was probably inhabited from 2000 BC on. Cladh Hallan’s roundhouse settlement followed a long sequence of earlier activity that started at the beginning of the Bronze Age. The deep machair […]
I arrived at my lovely thatched cottage in South Uist and got spoilt with the views on my first evening. My cottage was in South Lochboisdale and offered views towards the mountains of South Uist. My home for the next few days – a traditional thatched cottage. Neighbourhood…