Friday and Saturday night we were staying on the Ardoil Grazing site at Uig Sands on Lewis. This is a community run site, where you pay £2pppn into an honesty box at croft number 6 (it has a red roof). There's a shower block (showers £1) with toilets and kitchen area too, I'm told, although we didn't use them. All we needed was the tap outside. Uig Sands is a spectacular spot, where the sea retreats a full mile, leaving golden sands behind. It's near here that the Lewis Chessmen were discovered, although you need to go to Edinburgh or London to see them now. For us, it was a chance to try a spot of wild camping again, as there's no electricity here, nor toilet disposal either. Properly off the grid! It's a beautiful area (although I do like my sea with a little more drama, it kinda oozes in and out here) and the photos don't really do it justice at all. The other thing the photos don't convey is the strength of the wind! How anyone managed to put up a tent and keep it in one place is unknown to me - it was blowing a constant gale. Our barbecue dinner on Friday was quickly aborted as we couldn't get the flaming thing lit! On Saturday, we took a walk to the Uig Community Shop, which is really the only place locally that's in walking distance. It's just over 5 miles there and back, so you can imagine the moans of the children as we cajoled them along. Unsurprisingly, the walk back, complete with full tummies (the shop does sandwiches, pasties and hot drinks) and a packet of Smarties, was much easier. It's safe to say we all slept well that night but by morning we were ready to move on again - the constant wind was a bit of a pain and the girls were beginning to get a bit 'beached out'. Our next stop, Eoropie, would hopefully be a cure to that. Read more about our travels in the Outer Hebrides.
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