You might recognise the building above...I've certainly mentioned it before and we do seem to spend a fair number of evenings inside when we're in the Hebrides...yep, it's the Pub! The Westford Inn, to be exact, Good Beer Guide listed, purveyor of fine ales and excellent food, and owned and run by our lovely friends Elisabeth & Alastair. They've put a lot of time and effort into renovating and upgrading the building over the last few years...
...there you go - you can see the new panelling to the ceiling, walls and bar, and the far lighter, brighter paint job than the place used to have. The two gas-lamps over the bar are original, and the beautiful wood-burner is just to the left and slightly behind where I was standing to take this photo (note MrEH posing with his pint glass, and Elisabeth trying to pretend that she really wasn't there at all, behind the bar!). Every year when we arrive one of the first things is our "guided tour" to see what they have managed to get completed over the previous winter!
We had been going to Uist for several years, regularly driving past the large imposing looking building you see at the top and mentioning how unusual it was (from head-on, it looks exactly as a small child draws a house, pointy roof with chimney atop and all!) and it wasn't until we can across a copy of the Highlands & Western Isles CAMRA branches magazine that we realised that we had been driving past a pub all that time! It's far easier to spot at the time of year we go now though - you wouldn't find it easy to miss this sign...
2 comments:
It looks a great pub! We have a similar experience in our favourite place in Cornwall; we visit every year and catch up on all the local news. Seeing familiar people and places really is a wonderful part of the holiday.
Yes -= that's exactly it! It's that point where you move past being "just another visitor" I think!
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