Would you believe us if we told you that we're in Scotland right now?
We're in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland right now
which is an island chain off of
the west coast of mainland Scotland.
Which includes the islands like
Barra, South and North Uists,
Harris and Lewis.
So we flew from Glasgow to Barra
and
Barra is a unique airport because
it has the world's only beach runway.
So we flew a tiny
airplane called the Twin Otter
and it's
actually the same plane that we took
when we were in the Maldives except in the Maldives it was a
floatplane and this one has wheels.
And we were lucky in that it was
an extremely sunny day and
we landed on the beach with blue skies
and
it was just really cool.
That was a low tide but
the water was still
on the beach
from the high tide.
That was like splashing around! But the,
the sand, the beach was quite solid.
That's why we were able to land on it.
And the actual airport just has one little
cafe with some tables and chairs
and the
luggage or baggage reclaim area
is just a little, it looks like a bus shelter
and you pick up your suitcases just like that!
From Barra, we took the ferry to Eriskay
which connects to
South Uist, which then
connects to North Uist
and a lot of these islands are connected via
causeways, so like, kind of like little
- bridges almost. - Made by stone.
- Yeah. - With a wee road
in the middle.
We stayed two nights on
North Uist exploring
the beaches and different things there
and then today, we took another
ferry from Berneray, which is
kind of off of North Uist to Leverburgh,
which is on Harris,
which is connected to Lewis. Are you confused yet?