Are you ever coming home?
On our last full day on Skye we decide ‘to get away from it all’ and catch a car ferry to another Inner Hebrides Island, Rassay. It is nice to be back at sea again, if only for 30 minutes each way. During a couple of rainy days, we read the fascinating story of Calum McLeod who lived on Rassay from 1911 to 1984. He was one of the last true crofters on the northern end of Raasay. Sadly, when ‘mod cons’ finally came to Rassay in the twentieth century the northern end of the island did not even get a road. The road stopped almost two miles from Calum’s front door. After years of struggling with Inverness Council Calum finally resolved that a road would never be built by the government. So, armed with only a pick, a shovel, a crow bar, a wheelbarrow and a book on road building purchased by mail order, Calum began to build the road himself. He built the road in his spare time, while continuing to run his subsistence croft (without electricity or piped water), delivering the mail and dri
