Sunday Stroll

As the weather looked ever so promising at 2 o'clock, I decided to go for a walk. As the sun sets just before 4pm, I couldn't go far. So, to the Iolaire Memorial it was. This is a walk of 4½ mile / 7 km roundtrip. It basically leads along the shoreline from Stornoway to Lower Sandwick and beyond to Holm Point. The map below shows the Gaelic names: Steornabhagh, Mol Shanndabhaig and Rubha Thuilm.

For reference: in Gaelic an H after a consonant changes the pronounciation of the leading consonant. BH becomes W, TH becomes voiceless and SH becomes H.

Some pictures are a bit fuzzy; the light is not very good at the moment, and the slightest motion will of course blurr the picture. Of course, as the progression of pictures shows, the weather decided to deteriorate fairly rapidly, but all I got was a few spots of rain.