A warning was sent from the clachans lower down. This allowed many people to get away, but not all of them. A contemporary account states one old man in his 80s was shot while trying to flee.
over the scattered "clachans" - little handfuls of whitewashed toy houses - tucked away in the sheltered folks of the hills, to the coastline, bitten into the sandy bays guarded by islets of ...
We live in a hurried world where, for many of us, the essence of a deeply nourishing holiday is to dial down the schedules and the speed. The gentle pace of Scotland’s far north coast has been ...