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Station Bunkhouse Opposite train station T 01599
544235, E mickcoe@btinternet.com. A pleasant wee
bunkhouse bang opposite the railway station, with rather
cramped six-bed dorms and better four-bed dorms popular
with families, all below a pleasant open-plan kitchen and
living area. Check-in i s at t he same owner's Nessun Dorma
B&B next door. Dorms £14
EATING AND DRINKING
Plockton Inn Innes St T 01599 544222. The locals'
choice offers excellent lunches like watercress and sweet-
potato soup or smoked trout pâté, then a fine evening
menu of fresh seafood, often from the inn's own smokery.
Good vegetarian options too, and music on Tues and Thurs
evenings. Daily noon-2.30pm & 6-11.30pm; food
served noon-2.30pm & 6-9pm.
Plockton Shores 30 Harbour St T 01599 544263.
Metropolitan-styled café-restaurant that starts the day
as a relaxed coffee and lunch stop, then shifts up a gear
for modern Scottish, European-flavoured dishes like
monkfish in a light Talikser whisky-and-fennel sauce.
Tues-Sun
9.30am-9pm
(closed
Sun
eve
Nov-Easter).
Loch Carron
North of Plockton are the twin sea lochs of Loch Kishorn , so deep it was once used as
an oil-rig construction site, and Loch Carron , which cuts far inland to
STRATHCARRON , a useful rail link between Kyle of Lochalsh and Torridon but little
else. If you're arriving from the south by car, however, you pass Attadale Gardens
(April to mid-Oct Mon-Sat 10am-5.30pm; £6; T 01520 722603, W attadalegardens.
com), made up of twenty artistically landscaped acres ranked among Scotland's finest
gardens by horticultural aficionados.
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Lochcarron
With supermarkets, cafés, a bank and fuel, LOCHARRON represents a major hub
hereabouts. While it's of more use than interest, two craft sights warrant a pause. A
mile north of town on the main road, the Lochcarron Old Smiddy Heritage Centre
(Easter-Oct Mon-Sat 10am-5pm), a nineteenth-century smithy and forge, is open
erratically in season but has become a focus for local crafts collectives , with two halls
selling weaving and quilting, pottery, painting and woodwork. More celebrated are the
tartans of Lochcarron Weavers ( T 01520 722212, W lochcarronweavers.co.uk). You can
see weaving demonstrations (and buy fabrics and clothing) in its workshop a mile
south of Lochcarron towards Strome Castle.
ARRIVAL AND INFORMATION
LOCH CARRON
By rail Strathcarron is on the Kyle-Inverness line (Mon-
Sat 4 daily, Sun 2 daily): trains run from/to Inverness (1h
45m) and Kyle (40min).
By bus Timetables are co-ordinated so that buses meet
train arrivals at Strathcarron. Services run to Lochcarron
from Shieldaig (Mon-Fri 1 daily; 1hr) and Torridon (Mon-
Sat 1 daily; 1hr)
Tourist information Due to move on our last visit, the
information point should be in the crafts collective at the
Old Smiddy by 2014 (Easter-Oct Mon-Sat 10am-5pm).
ACCOMMODATION AND EATING
Ì Kishorn Seafood Bar Kishorn, 6 miles north of
Lochcarron T 01520 733240. A bright, informal café
named in the top-ten British seafood restaurants by one
national newspaper for local and fresh seafood. Come
for sharing platters (£25 for two), Skye mussels or just
garlic scallops and a croissant (£8). March-June & Oct-
Nov Mon-Thurs, Sat & Sun 10am-5pm, Fri
10am-9pm; July-Sept Mon-Sat 10am-9pm, Sun
10am-5pm.
Old Manse Church St, Lochcarron T 01520 722208,
W theoldmanselochcarron.com. Floral fabrics, pine
furniture and wrought-iron beds - country style rules in
the five spacious rooms of the Old Manse, on the road to
Strome Castle. Perhaps its real appeal is the locatio n be fore
the loch - £10 extra buys you a room with a view. £60
Rockvilla Hotel Main St, Lochcarron T 01520 722379,
W therockvilla.com. Refurbished in 2013 to offer smart
(if slightly bland) small-hotel decor, this is far better than
the tired pebble-dashed exterior suggests - spotless,
comfortable en-suites, posh toiletries plus mod cons like
flatscreen TVs, iPod dock s an d wi-fi. It also has a licensed
restaurant. Easter-Sept. £79
 
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