3 Blogs for the Outer Hebrides ©
3 Blogs for the Outer Hebrides

3 Blogs for the Outer Hebrides

The islands' board on the empty east of Lewis, an islander's essays from Scalpay, and Uist's Gaelic community site

The Outer Hebrides are written about mostly as a postcard. These three write from inside: the islands' tourism body on the empty east of Lewis that visitors heading for Callanish never see, a Stornoway-born writer's essays on island life now, and Uist's community site, in Gaelic and English.

They lead to a ruined church at Point, a headland for whales, the beach where one writer's family came from, and the Madonna on the hill above South Uist.

Further Reading

3 Blogs for the Outer Hebrides

  1. 01 The Roads Less Travelled visitouterhebrides.co.uk · Mark Rowe The islands' board, here in a piece by the author of the Bradt guide on the east of Lewis: Point, the Lochs and the Pairc.
  2. 02 The Sounds of Silence – Searching for Meaning in the Quiet Places offthecroft.substack.com · Mike Donald A Stornoway-born writer's essays on modern Hebridean life, crofting, weaving and the Sabbath, written against the postcard version.
  3. 03 The Shrines on our Shores uist.co Uist's community site, in Gaelic and English, with islanders' own stories of the place.

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