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.
Between 1950 and 1958, the buildings at Eddrachilles on Badcall Bay served as one of the most remote youth hostels in the Scottish Highlands. Drawing on original Scottish Youth Hostel Association archives, this article traces the hostel’s extraordinary story — from seventy yards of electrical flex and Tilley lamps to storm damage, walkers, wardens, and the enduring habit of welcome that still shapes the former manse today.
A May morning at Eddrachilles Hotel; mist lifting from Badcall Bay, birdsong in the woodlands, seals on the skerries, and the change of rhythm of the shore as the North Highlands wake for the day.
A reflection on hospitality, appetite and Highland food culture at The Glebe Kitchen restaurant at Eddrachilles Hotel on Scotland’s northwest coast.