Stranded In Portree March 9, 2010
Posted by tiffany in : Isle of Skye , trackbackMonday was the day my computer was getting fixed. We saw a computer repair shop in Kyle, so we hopped on a bus and when we got there, he confirmed it had to be the monitor. So, knowing there was not much he could do for us that Chris couldn’t do, he sold us a small screw driver and sent us on our way. Chris pulled it apart (with some locals staring) in a coffee shoppe. Chris didn’t find anything wrong with it (I personally think the thing wanted Chris’ full attention), so he put it back together and it works like I just bought it! Thank god for the computer whisperer!
So then we took the bus to Skye’s capital; Portree (Population: 2,491) to see if we could get a connection to Staffin ( it apparently has a very beautiful view
of the mountians). Well no such luck, so we headed to the Tourist Information center and was told to take a bus that follows the shore all along the north of the isle. Perfect! We already had day passes so the big tour was free!
We had a great time looking out the windows, joking, and snapping pictures at the opportune time. When we returned to Portree, however, we had a sorry surprise, all the buses going anywhere were gone. We decided that staying the night in Portree would be cheaper than hiring a taxi to drive the hour and a half back to Kyleakin (about 50 pounds or more).
Depressing? Well, it became another adventure in itself and the last time we listen to a tourist information person on the topic of buses. Great learning experience.
The hostel we stayed the night in was oddly colored..a green door here, a red hallway there, and random purple walls through out the building. It was an interesting, but quiet hostel. We shared a room with two Germans who run a French camp ground in the summer time. They were both very nice people and one of them went out and bought us a toothbrush after hearing we had left all of our stuff in Kyleakin.
The next morning we went on a hike in Portree, which was wonderful! the sun was out, it was a whopping seventy degrees(the British tourists complain “I’m out here in just a jumper, unbelievable.” ), and the wildlife and sheep were out enjoying the sun (defrosting perhaps). We borrowed binoculars from a fellow 
hiker and spotted a seal bobbing in the water. They said they saw several swimming and sometimes they jump out of the water. Too bad we didn’t see that, since I’ve had my eye out for them for four days now.
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