June plans

[icepixie]

*sticks out tongue at EasyJet* Phooey. I had a schedule all planned out for June, and it depended on being able to fly from Bristol to Inverness, like EasyJet said they could. Of course, I go to make sure of that, and the flights don't start until July. ARGH! So I either need to spend £ 30 more on a single train trip to London and fly out of there, or rearrange my whole schedule to accomodate flying from Exeter to either Edinburgh or Glasgow, then taking a train. Bah.

Spekaing of the Highlands, some questions for people who've been there. Okay, so I've heard good things about the Isle of Skye. Are they true? How difficult is it to get there via public transportation if I base myself in Inverness for a couple of days? Would some kind of tour be a better option? Also, as far as prettiness goes, would Loch Ness or Loch Lomond be the better option? Should I do both, even though I have, like, five days, two of which will be taken up with getting to and from Scotland?

Any info about the Lake District that anyone can provide would be nice, too.

*looks at 2500 words of memoir* And to think I'd meant to have all 5000 written by tonight. *sigh* Although I was working on other stuff today; I'm writing a paper on You've Got Mail and its reworking of the story in The Shop Around the Corner, so of course I had to watch YGM today, regardless of the fact that I've memorized large parts of that movie... ;)

Comments

[icepixie]

Okay, okay! :) If only EasyJet flew to Inverness...argh... How good is public transportation to and around the island? Should I try to stay somewhere on Skye, or in the nearest large town?

[vallentine.livejournal.com]

I don't know about public transportation around the isle (I didn't have to deal with it. Butler organized the weekend I was there.) However, my friend Chris says it's pretty easy to get around. And there are nice hostels to stay in on Skye and it'd probably to way to difficult trying to stay somewhere else and dragging yourself out to Skye in the mornings.
Good luck getting there!

[icepixie]

Thanks for the info. It looks like the places that looked pretty require, like, four-hour bus trips to get to because nothing goes directly between places I'd like to be. So what I think I'm going to do is take a morning train from Inverness to Eileen Donan castle and Kyle of Lochalsh (on the mainland right across from Skye; you probably went to the castle), stay the night, and leave the next morning. Time constraints and sanity-keeping measures mean that I can't really do much else, but hopefully I'll at least get a taste of the area. The train trip between Inverness and Lochalsh is supposed to be the most beautiful in the country.