Portree, Isle of Skye March 6, 2010
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After breakfast this morning, we decided to walk down the beach in front of Kyleakin (pronounced Kyle-a-kin, hard a), and found a lot of rocks that were great for skipping so we spent our time waiting for the bus to Portree skipping rocks, sometimes as many as 7 or 8 skips!
We spent our day today in Portree, the largest town on the Isle of Skye. While the town itself was a wee bit bigger than Kyleakin, it was still small and sleepy.
We had lunch around noon, talked to one of the guys who lives here who was working the bar, and learned that the language we want to learn, Scottich Gaelic (pronounced Ga-lik, soft a), is supposedly the third hardest language to learn after Chinese Mandarin and Japanese.
The bartender at the place we had lunch loves to hike and had several pictures he showed us including one of where he found a seal, his friend and he wouldn’t have seen the seal except that it barked at them while they were walking by, causing them both to jump. They managed to corner it a bit to get a couple of pictures; we thought about trying to find a seal but apparently they are really well camouflaged in the rocks.
While in Portree, we stopped in what is apparently the only ice-cream parlour on the island, their banana ice-cream was fantastic, and was what I ate, while Tiff had their toffee, also good but not as delicious as yesterday.
The beach around Portree wasn’t great looking right near the shore but once you look a bit father away, the water was gorgeous and had a breathtaking backdrop of mountains. All-in-all, today was a fun day but a slow and relaxed one as well.
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