Of a' the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west...

We've just gotten back from the Hielands (the west highlands, to be specific...hence the Rabbie Burns quote!) where we had a lovely (sorry - bonnie) time. It's aye beautiful up there - wholly recommend it to anyone lucky enough to find themselves in Scotland!

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Anyway, in addition to gorgeous scenery, the Highlands, as it turns out, also boasts some really good food. Among the delicious treats I scoffed were some hot-smoked salmon from a smokehouse on the outer Hebrides (Salar Smokehouse...seriously good!), a wonderful meal of asparagus and pecorino tortelli in a beurre blanc sauce (eaten sitting in a tiny traditional pub perched on the edge of Loch Gairloch as the sun was setting, with the Isle of Skye in the background (mm, bliss...). A rather ordinary lunch of egg sandwiches was made superb by the simple fact that the bread was home-made, the free-range eggs were grown by "Sarah who lives down the road in Pool Ewe" and that the "organic lettuce grown by Joan and Alec up the way in Inverasdale" - and the locale of that meal was a 4 table cafe in an art gallery on the edge of Loch Ewe...how delightful!! If you weren't allergic to shell-fish and crustaceans, there is a whole host of other wonderful food available - at the Badachro Inn (aforementioned little pub on the edge of Loch Gairloch) they were serving some stunning-looking langoustines and crab.

I'm back now, and will diligently be reporting on my lunch adventures and any other interesting meals I might embark on. I hope you all had a lovely Easter and have eaten plenty of delicious treats...!