Stornaway is the main town on Lewis. We didn’t have high expectations as everyone we had spoken to on the various islands had pretty much nothing positive to say about it. It did feel like you were hitting a bigger city after the remoteness of the rest of the Hebrides but we had a great time. Our first night on Lewis we stayed a little further north than Stornaway but based ourselves there for the next couple of night.
Lews Castle, Stornaway
Stornaway Harbour
A highlight of our stay in Stornaway was the pub!! As you all know, the Desert Rat and I are partial to a cleansing ale so we parked ourselves in this pub, had a few ales and listened to the pub band which consisted of a couple of blokes singing and playing the guitar. When they discovered I am Australian, I was serenaded with a couple of classics including ‘I Come from a Land Down Under’. The locals were all pretty friendly – roaring drunk but friendly and none of them could understand why we had chosen Stornaway as a holiday destination! Anyway, we had a great night!! The pub itself had its own history, and we were very much amused by the little plaque out the front….
Needless to say, we were happy it had reverted back to old ways!!
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