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C6 - Sunday News, October 25, 1981

Every now and again, I get
lucky and a reader takes
over writing the column for

me by way of an excellent
letter.

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All of us complain about
“rushing the season” when
stores start ramming-home
Christmas the day after they
stockpile the Halloween
treats. However, magazines
have already begun

suggesting items to make -

that take a little time such as

fruitcakes and handmade
gimcracks. SE
Travel planning, too,

takes a little time. but for the
next few issues T'll try and
provide a little pre-season
advice. In some cases the
information will be too late
with bookings needed last

“° January. Sorry about that

by Barbara

McCreadie

By ANDY FRASER

Standing among the ruins
of the castle on the rocky
headland in the rain, it
would have been no surprise
to have heard the war horns
and to have seen the galleys
rowing through the mists to
their anchorage in the bay
far below us.

From here, at Duntulm
Castle on the Isle of Sky, the

but I couldn’t bring myself to
discuss Christmas until I'd
paid for last year’s efforts!

DEAR BARBARA: .

Re: spending Christmas it in
England.

Scotland and Wales do not
celebrate the same way and
anyone going to Northern
Ireland must be stark, raving
mad.

However, 2 word of
warning: Don’t stay at a

MacDonalds’ of  Sleat,
legendary Lords of the Isles,
ruled the Hebrides and much
of the west coast of Scotland
for hundeds of years, their
fleets of viking-like ships
roving and raiding at will on
fearful neighbouring clans.
And of course like all old
ruined castles this one too
has its own ghost, that of an
infant who dropped over the

THE FAIRY GLEN on Skye is so-named because of its

‘faerie-land’ appearance and atmosphere.

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Trust FTIouse Forte hotel.
unless you go the
“Sucker Traps’? in.

Lavenham, Long Melford,
one or two top places in the

Yorkshire Dales and, in

London, Brown's Hotel in
Dover Street.

In all) the others the food is
lousy, the service indifferent
and since the changes from
“Trust Houses” (Barbara's
note: a merger in hotel
chains) the difference is
quite unbelievable. One still

pays top prices.
Of course, in the tourist
traps or “Sucker Bait”,

everything is marvellous.
The service and the food
ditto but the prices quite out
of this world. Only a rich
Texan or blue-cyed Arab
from Alberta could afford
more than one meal and
even that could put a per
manent crimp in the budget.
If you can get in, but they
are usually booked solid for
12 months, THE
HAYCOCKS INN, in
Wainsford is perfect. It’s on
the Al, about six miles from

The misty magic of Sk

side of the walls to the sea,
and whose ghostly cries
became so disturbing for the
MacDonalds that they left
the castle in 1719.

But Duntulm is just one of
the magical and mysterious
places on the misty Isle of
Skye, an island with a way of
life and a geography totally
out of touch with our North
American way of life.

On the docks in Portree,
the small town which serves
as the capital of the Island,
we listened to the soft,
lilting, almost song-like
Gaelic of fishermen who toil
the sea as their fathers have
done for a thousand years.

We drove the narrow.
single lane roads at less than
five miles an hour through a
hail storm and gale strength
winds which made way for
the most complete and

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It dates back to the 13th or
14th century and very little
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This Inn will take you
back to the real ald England.
Even the local farmers.at the
bar at night have hardly
changed and their local
Gialect is a joy to listen to.

BARBARA REPLIES: I
have stayed at a number of
Trust House Forte hotels
and have to agree with the
reader that they cértainly do
vary in quality and you can
pay the earth for the better
ones. We'll just have to take
“on Trust” that the ones he
mentions are excellent.
Probably, few of us can ever
afford to try them out!

More on Christmas abroad
next issue.

gorgeous rainbow we have
ever seen.

At one point, our little
yellow cdr shared a tiny
road-side pull-off with a
massive and hairy Highland
cow who was using the
passing lane sign as a
scratching post refusing to
move just because a car
needed the space.

Outside the stone cot-
tages, stacks of peat dry in
the irregular sun, the island’s
winter fuel supply. Each
family has their own cutting
area from the moors and
bogs, and as we drive,
sharing the road with the
sheep, we see old men and
women cutting the turf and
stacking it in the fields, as
has been done for centuries.

Hundreds of rain swollen
streams tumble down the
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