Highlights of the Highlands
It is 225 miles from Aberdeen to Portree on the Isle of Skye and 120 miles from Inverness. But that distance didn’t stop Friends travelling to their North Scotland Area Meeting earlier this month. Each May, a Local Meeting far distant from the main centres hosts Area Meeting. In the past three years they have met in North Argyll, Orkney and Shetland.

We asked Friends to tell us something of what they saw on the way. Eleanor Fairclough shares what she saw having left Inverness: ‘along Loch Ness-side we round the cliff-face above the ruins of Urquhart Castle, steeped in clan history. At Invermoriston the village shop proclaims: “last shop for 43 miles,” as we turn westwards over the rising landscape to Loch Cluanie. Under this hydro-electric scheme lie the remains of the boyhood home of the local member of the Scottish Parliament.

‘Rising to the summit at 271 metres, the road falls to the western seaboard where a family of black mountain goats are grazing at the roadside. Past the picture-book Eilean Donan Castle, the straits lie ahead with the backdrop of the Cuillin Mountains of Skye beyond.
‘It is over the sea to Skye on the high-level bridge and thirty-four miles on to the island capital at Portree. Ten Friends from the mainland stayed for two nights, joining Meeting for Worship on the Sunday.’

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