Manchester/Scotland 2025 - Isle of Skye Tour First Night at Portree (2/2)

2nd post on Portree, let me show you around this little town (actually it's the biggest town in Skye).

There were only two main road in the town, and our hotel was on one of them. Above is the Portree Hotel. Most of the hotel and pub and shops were on the main road. The other maid road was the one leading into Portree and all the way to the harbour area. 

We stayed at this hotel above, Tongadale Hotel. We had to pay cash upon check in, and it was a bed and breakfast, so breakfast was included. There are no lift inside the building, and I think we stayed on the 2nd or 3rd floor. There are no aircon inside the room either. It was a super old hotel, and the corridors inside was super narrow. But they do have a pub downstairs, as well as a restaurant. We tried having our dinner there. We even made a book as priority is given to houseguest. But unfortunately the dish I wanted was not available on that day, so we declined the table and went elsewhere to look for our dinner.

Here is a look at our room. It was cool enough when we opened the window. The toilet was rather small and I didn't really like it that much. But other than that, it was an old place, so it smells like an old place as well. But it wasn't cheap! I think it was around 150pounds a night!

While exploring the town, here are some shops that was kinda cute.

There was also a memorial house for a poet. But I wasn't familiar with Gaelic Bard. Still, I took a photo, in case in future I become a fan of hers. I am interested in the language. I find it sounds so magical, and it reminded me of elfish language. 

There was one book store on the main road leading into town, and I was surprised they stock the latest Murakami book. For such a remote town, they do have very good collection! The bookstore was actually closed, so I was just browsing their window display. 

I also saw this book under poetry! Damn!

While looking for dinner, we did try this restaurant by the harbour. I think we went around 7pm? There was a queue, but there was also a cut-off. Meaning they stopped serving the last few people and that's it. So we ran to some pizza kiosk we saw early by the harbour, and that too was closed by 7pm..... Man, it was tough finding food in this small town!

Luckily, there was a small co-op nearby which was still opened. So we went there hoping to find some meal deal we could have for our dinner. The price of items inside was very reasonable, so this will be our backup place for food. We also found Irn-Bru! And decided to buy one just to try. It tasted like Fanta Orange, but more medicine-like. I didn't like it at all! Except for coke, I don't really like most soft drinks. I think most of them taste like chemical. I do sometimes drink 100plus or Calpis. 

And lucky me, I think I found some pasta ribbon with pesto sauce. That will do for my dinner. We also got a bottle of milk, because milk is delicious and cheap in Scotland. And it doesn't taste creamy or fatty either. It taste like nice watery fresh milk.