Where to go.

[Morgan]

We're going up there in August for a week and again at Christmas for two weeks, we will be getting married then as well. Very much looking forward to it. Each time we go though, it's harder to come back. We camped up on Lewis and Harris last year on a beach just opposite Taransay where they did Castaway 2000. Lewis is the bigger of the group of islands and even has a town, with streets and things.

The southern group of islands where we go most often are much smaller and the villages consist mostly of the "main road" (in some places it's got two lanes, mostly it's single track with passing places) and a line of house spread either side of the road. The "towns" on the southern islands are pretty much the same, but have a couple of side roads.

It's pretty darn cool sitting in the car in the car park of the Co-Op on Benbecula and watching seals on the rocks just a few metres away over the wall.

It's rough up there, most people have a 20 foot or 40 foot storage container instead of a shed as they don't get blown away. You drive passed big static caravans with four or five big thick ratchet straps holding them down. The don't consider it windy until you can't really stand up outside. It's not as cold as you think though.