Journal
Occasional reflections from Eddrachilles Hotel — notes on place, season, food, and the quieter rhythms of life in the North West Highlands.
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Journal
Occasional reflections from Eddrachilles Hotel — notes on place, season, food, and the quieter rhythms of life in the North West Highlands.
Visitors look across the Northwest Highlands and sense something missing. This article explores the Clearances and “Improvements” in Sutherland — without romance, without easy villains. It explains why conscience changed the Church in this parish and why the building housing today’s Eddrachilles Hotel ceased to be a Presbyterian manse.
As spring approaches in the North West Highlands, life at Eddrachilles begins its quiet transition from winter stillness to seasonal readiness. Behind the scenes, rooms are refreshed, gardens prepared and menus refined — all part of the thoughtful preparations that shape the welcome guests experience on arrival.
Bannock — a Scottish staple once forgotten, rediscovered by a Yukon campfire, and now returned to the breakfast table at Eddrachilles, made with bere meal from Orkney.