Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Stop Press! Missing mountain located in Scotland

Has anyone checked that Mt Roland is still near Sheffield? It sure looks like it moved to Ullapool!
And there are gum trees in the streets, one of them anyway.
We have been staying in a converted garage in the owner's backyard for just over a week now and will be here for another 5 days. The garage is quite comfy, small but it has 2 bedrooms. Here are a few more more photos of this little fishing/tourist village. Like Devonport, it has a regular large ferry service - in Ullapool's case it is a shorter journey out to the largest of the Outer Hebridean islands and back, twice a day. We will be on that boat at the end of the month.
The hills are alive with not exactly the sound of music, although we did go to a performance of traditional fiddle music in an art gallery - no, that gold up on the hills is gorse.

 Proof that there are blue skies sometimes!
 Looking down on Ullapool from a walk up the hill. It is surrounded by mountains and sea.

What have we been doing?  A few local walks, a boat tour to the Summer Isles, a couple of local bus rides to see the scenery and go to a cafe out of town and a three day book festival that entertained and opened our minds to a great variety of Scottish writers we have not heard of before.

That Rolandish mountain? It is actually Ben Coigach, a Torridonian sandstone mountain that rises over 800m from sea level.

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