The only city on Lewis and Harris is Stornoway, a working port where our ferry from Ullapool on the west coast of Scotland landed us and where we left by air for Glasgow. We stayed in a home with the benefit of a small washing machine, very useful after we were soaked on a long bike ride. Downside was that a drying rack replaced an electric dryer, but we and our clothing survived. We walked around the town, through the wooded park around Lews Castle and museum, ate good food at the Royal Hotel, and rented hybrid bikes at BeSpoke Bicyles.
We rode back to our accommodation in a freezing rainstorm and completed 43 miles soaked and frozen. But the next day we determined to visit the other major antiquity on Lewis, the Callanaish Standing Stones where a bus took us within a mile and the schedule allowed us to spend several hours wandering and wondering among the megaliths.
