The Road to the Isles is on the mainland, but from Allt Nan Sugh, you have to drive all the way to Fort William to get there. The shorter route is by CalMac ferry from Armadale on Skye to Mallaig. On the 1130am crossing, we saw porpoises off the port bow. The road runs for 46 miles through green glens. We went only as far as Glenfinnan. At the Visitor Centre, the National Trust for Scotland has a variety of schemes for taking your money, from a fee for the car park, through an honesty box outside the toilets, to selling tickets for the Bonnie Prince Charlie monument. This last, a figure of the Young Pretender atop a tower, commemorates the Jacobite uprising of 1745. Here is reputed to be the very spot where he raised
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