Category: Explore – Around Rhenigidale

Christopher Somerville’s book Britain and Ireland’s Best Wild Places: 500 Essential Journeys was published some three years ago, but certain factors do not date. Jonny Muir’s review in The Ecologist mentions the inclusion of Rhenigidale. To many hostellers this, the setting of the oldest of the three existing Gatliff hostels, particularly deserves a mention – Read More …

There are several different ways of getting to and from Rhenigidale. People will devise approaches and write about them. Some wanted to be brought by their Isetta which they had named ‘Soapy’. Another wanted to incorporate the hostel in a walk taking in a range of local places seldom visited. For the former, enjoy the Read More …

Here’s an extract from Secret Scotland Forum: ‘It wasn’t the last manual telephone – it was ‘Rhenigidale 1’  in the village of Rhenigidale on the Isle of Harris which didn’t get a road connection until the early 1990s. With the coming of the road, BT laid a cable to Rhenigidale and on 5 March 1990, the Read More …