the good news is it's 5 miles long so you don't have to stay long. The biggest (and it's OK) hotel on the islands is the Dark Island Hotel is at Liniclate; and there's a good restaurant called the Stepping Stones at Balivanich ... In 1919 William Leverhulme purchased the South Harris estate from the Earl of Dunmore for the sum of ?36000. He planned to turn it into a fishing centre and, with this in mind, he purchased what was to be his first shop in a chain of fish shops ...
It's a safe environment; there's an airport (Balivanich) less than 40 miles away which has a long runway (military standard), and this would provide an opportunity (joined-up again) for it to be upgraded to take international flights. ...
the benbecula tradition is quite clear that the family lived there at about today's bbalivanich/b. they were known not as the macdonalds of milton but as the macdonalds of bbalivanich/b, the milton being added later when flora's brother built ...
