Ten years ago last August, I stood at the end of the road in Uig. The township was called Mealista, but nobody lives there now. You need to backtrack a mile or so to reach the nearest habitation, the township of Breanais. Distance from Mealista to Stornoway is 43 miles or 69 km. If you were to glance left from the viewpoint in this photograph, you might be able to make out the slipway in Huisinis, in Harris. As the crow flies, the distance is 6.6 miles, or 10.6 km. By road, the distance is 74.1 miles or 119.1 km - the difference of course is about 110 km or 70 miles. It also bears out that in the past, all travel round here went by boat.
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