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Isle of Skye

A visit to the Highlands, travelling through Ullapool, Portree and the Dunvegan Castle.
 
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Waterfalls.  Seall!  Look!  A waterfall!..  Another waterfall, look!  A waterfall....waterfall...  

A waterfall around every turn.  Water, water everywhere.  And clean and pure.  Best water anywhere.  

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​We had fun at the Skye Museum of Island Life.  They had a great collection of old things.  And we could move in and out and touch things. 

More rocks.  Hard to imagine living in a rock house with a thatch (or more often slate) roof.  I read a couple of Scottish histories, and they alluded to the poverty, squalor, and pride of the highlanders, suggesting that they defended a clan/tribal lifestyle that had not evolved into obscurity on its own.  They were continually being forced out of their huts.  I left Scotland wondering whose version of history was more accurate:  the neat cottages here shown at the museum, or the highland crofts and huts historians referred to.
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