Picturesque Portree
Portree on the Isle of Skye has a small section of very colorful businesses along the Loch Portree. When we were there it was packed with people and cars even though it was a Wednesday, making driving on the narrow streets a very scary adventure!
Portree is the main town on Skye. Its name comes from the Gaelic Port-an-Righ, which translates as "King's Port" and dates to a visit by King James V, plus a fleet of warships, in 1540, to persuade the island clans to support him. It had earlier been known as Kiltraglen.
Sir James Macdonald, developed Portree as a fishing port from 1771. 1846 brought potato famine to Skye, and during the following fifty years clearance and emigration of a large part of the population, many through Portree, took place. Better times followed, and by 1894 there were daily steamer services to Strome Ferry, and other links to places as far afield as Ullapool, Oban, Lochinver and many ports in the Western Isles.
Picturesque Portree
Portree on the Isle of Skye has a small section of very colorful businesses along the Loch Portree. When we were there it was packed with people and cars even though it was a Wednesday, making driving on the narrow streets a very scary adventure!
Portree is the main town on Skye. Its name comes from the Gaelic Port-an-Righ, which translates as "King's Port" and dates to a visit by King James V, plus a fleet of warships, in 1540, to persuade the island clans to support him. It had earlier been known as Kiltraglen.
Sir James Macdonald, developed Portree as a fishing port from 1771. 1846 brought potato famine to Skye, and during the following fifty years clearance and emigration of a large part of the population, many through Portree, took place. Better times followed, and by 1894 there were daily steamer services to Strome Ferry, and other links to places as far afield as Ullapool, Oban, Lochinver and many ports in the Western Isles.