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formed into a stylish, welcoming hotel with a stunning location looking out across the sea
to Barra. The excellent restaurant and bar menu (mains £8 to £17) includes fish chowder,
local salmon and Uist lamb.
Polochar is 7 miles southwest of Lochboisdale, on the way to Eriskay.
Wireless Cottage£
( 01878-700660; www.wirelesscottage.co.uk ; Lochboisdale; per person £25) This
pretty little cottage, whic once housed the local tele-phone exchange, is now a welcoming
and good-value B&B a short (300m) walk from the ferry, with just two bedrooms (one
double, one family).
B&B
Lochside Cottage££
( 01878-700472; www.lochside-cottage.co.uk ; Loch boisdale; r per person £30; )
Lochside Cottage is a friendly B&B, 1.5 miles west of the ferry, and has rooms with views
and a sun lounge barely a fishing-rod's length from its own trout loch.
B&B
HOSTEL
Tobha Mor Crofters' Hostel£
( www.gatliff.org.uk ; Howmore; dm adult/child £12/7) Atmospheric hostel housed in a re-
stored thatched blackhouse, about 6 miles south of Loch Druidibeg.
Getting There & Around
CalMac ( www.calmac.co.uk ) ferries run between Lochmaddy and Uig (Skye), and Loch-
boisdale and Oban.
Bus W17 runs about four times a day (not Sunday) between Berneray and Eriskay via
Loch maddy, Balivanich and Lochboisdale. The trip from Lochmaddy to Lochboisdale
(£4.70) takes one hour 40 minutes.
Eriskay (Eiriosgaigh)
POP 170
In 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie first set foot in Scotland on the west coast of Eriskay, on
the sandy beach (immediately north of the ferry terminal) still known as Prince's Strand
(Coilleag a'Phrionnsa).
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