Our first day, July 16. David is walking past our cottage. Cill Rialaig was a pre-famine 18th century village. In 1991 the ruins were slated to be bulldozed for a road and vacation development. Noelle Campbell Sharp convinced the Council to let her restore the cottages and turn the village into an artists' retreat. There are now 8 cottages among the ruins, including a meeting house that was the storyteller's cottage.

This is the view down the road from our cottage. Quiet, a view of the North Atlantic, mountains all around. A new life, off the grid, for 2 weeks. It gets dark at 10:30 pm this time of year. A glorious stretch of time ahead.