Posts by fionacaldwell

2021 was a weird year wasn’t it?  Like all Self-Catering in Scotland, we were closed for the first 4 months and only re-opened towards the end of April. Choosing to re-open the moment we were allowed, meant that our first few guests had to suffer a little, as we had been unable to travel beforehand…

After all the uncertainty of the last 18 months or so, I am very grateful we have had a season at all this year.  Thank you to guests who had to put up with issues with a heating system that had been unused for 6 months; to all those who have kindly stripped beds and…

Well what a strange year this has been for everyone. it started out so promisingly for us – more bookings than any other year, so we had tentatively planned a few upgrades for when we would visit ourselves in May, August and October. But as they say, so much for the best laid plans of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBVoDVfRofE Of all our visitors I have to say that the unexpected one on Christmas Day was probably the most welcome. One of the reasons that we ever came to Skye was because we loved taking our kayaks out to see the wildlife on the West Coast of Scotland. I count it as a successful…

As we are heading rapidly towards Christmas and the New Year, I wanted to look back on what we achieved in 2019. We managed to complete the upstairs bathroom – still with its wonderful views towards the Applecross Peninsula; we started the re-furbishing of the downstairs bathroom – extending the tiling (and we have more…