Qualla: Uig https://qualla.com/uig en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Uig https://qualla.com/uig Uig: Introduction https://qualla.com/uig/ Major William Fraser built his folly tower in the 1860s to display his wealth - a cod-Norman keep planted below his mansion to remind tenants of his feudal power. He had just finished evicting crofters in the Highland Clearances when his own mansion washed away in a flood. The tower still stands at Uig, empty and a little ridiculous, a monument to a landlord who outlived neither his cruelty nor his pretensions. The bay it overlooks - a near-perfect amphitheatre carved into the north coast of Skye - has been carrying people away from this island for far longer than Fraser's family held it.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/r/uig-wk/gf5r-uig-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Uig: The Bay of Departures https://qualla.com/uig/ Uig curls around an inlet so symmetrical it looks designed. The Norse named it vik, meaning bay, and used it as a stepping-stone in their long expansion across the North Atlantic. The village now strings along the hillside above the water, about a mile and a half from the souther...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/r/uig-wk/gf5r-uig-the-bay-of-departures.mp3 0:06 2 full Uig: Flora's Long Road Home https://qualla.com/uig/ Three hundred yards up the lane from the Museum of Island Life, a tall Celtic cross marks Flora MacDonald's grave. In 1746, Flora was twenty-four and visiting South Uist when the fugitive Bonnie Prince Charlie arrived after Culloden. She helped him escape across the sea to Skye d...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/r/uig-wk/gf5r-uig-floras-long-road-home.mp3 0:06 3 full Uig: The Landslip Coast https://qualla.com/uig/ Ten thousand years ago, as the last Ice Age released its grip on Skye, the ice that had been supporting the eastern flank of Trotternish gave way. The mountainside collapsed. What remained is the strangest landscape in the Hebrides - the Quiraing's hidden plateau ringed by basalt...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/r/uig-wk/gf5r-uig-the-landslip-coast.mp3 0:06 4 full Uig: Fairy Glens and Brewery Air https://qualla.com/uig/ Above the village, a side lane leads to the Fairy Glen - a pocket landscape of grassy hillocks that look engineered, a turret of rock locally called Castle Ewen that you can climb in a few minutes, and gnarled trees twisted by weather. The name is recent and tourist-friendly; the...

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