Advantages: Lots to see Disadvantages: Admission charges
...running water the Isle of Skye can still be quite an inhospitable place. In Gaelic it is known as Eilean Cheo (The Misty Isle) and its winters are amongst the harshest endured anywhere in the British Isles. Despite all of this humans have inhabited Skye for at least the last eight thousand years and over this period these people have adapted to cope with the environment. This way of life, which is unique to the Scottish Highlands, is known as crofting ... ...a few isolated pockets on Skye although it is still quite prevalent on the remoter Western Isles of Lewis and Harris. The Museum of Island Skye is an example of a typical crofting community on the northern peninsula. All across Skye crofts were abandoned and fell into disrepair but thankfully a cluster of six different buildings were preserved. These have been converted into the museum that we find today with each of the different buildings furnished ...
micksheff 27.06.2009
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