Macretro lot question

[computerbitz]

Right i am looking at posts available in all of the uk for whjat i do and come across a short term 12 month post in the Outer Hebrides on the Isle of Lewis so anyone know what the place is like or would i feel like Sgt Howie in the Wicker Man lol


more research will be needed like but i am tempted to apply just for the hell of it and see whats on offer other than job spec theres not alot of info on island itself for vacancy like accommadation and so on

 

[giant-one]

My parents lived in Stornoway for a few years as my dad ran the harris tweed company.

The problem is everybody is very clicky, virtually nothing is open on sundays, the ferry dosen't run on sundays and only run 2 trips in winter and 3 in summer. This takes 3hrs per crossing let alone the 400mile trip to Ullapool to catch it from Barnoldswick Lancs. Islanders get special discount for crossings though.

Besides that I loved it when we visited them, lovely views etc.

Rick.

 

[dbmtb]

I've been to Lewis.

Great (stunning) countryside though, if rather wet!

But you'd need a taste for the quiet life.

 

[velomaniac]

As with most of these wee island communities you need to work hard at integrating yourself. If you dont make the effort, neither will they. Basically you need to get involved in everything to get across that your not some dreadful outsider or as the Shetlanders say ' a ferrylowper'
Cant speak for Stornaway although my great granny came from a hamlet near there but what i'ver said above is true for the northern isles. Integrate or die, you'll not regret it, they're very sound people if you get to know them and wee communities band together to help each other in tough times such as when winter storms etc make get to and from difficult.

 

[dbmtb]

I remember there being quite a good record shop in Stornaway too - so it's not all bad. But this WAS the mid 80s!

 

[The Ken]

Island life is very quiet and the hebrides quieter than most, but it is a stunning location so you might enjoy 12 months there, peace and quiet is a good thing sometimes.

Skye (Uig) ferry is also an option but takes just as long to get to as ullapool, the ferry is a little shorter though at under 2 hours.
Took me 5 hours to get back from near Uig and I live in Dundee (230miles away), it isn'y 400miles of motorway, and I only stopped for petrol once.

 

[kaiser]

Read 'the Stornoway way' for an idea of island life

 

[The Ken]

the story I remember, form a while back mind...

A family moved there and the wife hung out her washing before going to church on sunday, she got back form church to find all her washing still wet but folded neatly in the basket with a note on top saying not to do this on a sunday.

Very polite even if they are set in their ways.

 

[giant-one]

For god sake don't take the coastal road from Ullapool down towards fort william then over Glen Coe down to Glasgow as I did it once on the way back from my folks. Set of from Ullapool just after 10.30am, got to Glasgow about 5pm and still had over 200miles to go. :roll:

Stunning roads, views etc but one hell of a road trip.

I think the ferry prices have come down in the last 2 years but this is the ferry company. http://www.calmac.co.uk/

Rick.

 

[Neil]

the story I remember, form a while back mind...

A family moved there and the wife hung out her washing before going to church on sunday, she got back form church to find all her washing still wet but folded neatly in the basket with a note on top saying not to do this on a sunday.

Very polite even if they are set in their ways.

Sounds like that X-Files episode Arcadia (S06E15).