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By Inverewe Garden, Highland, Poolewe, Ross-shire IV22 2LD
IV22 2LD
Pool House is full of passion – for wine, food and stylish decor, all vocations for a family who have searched the corners of the earth to furnish their delightful loch-side hotel.
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By Inverewe Garden, Highland, Poolewe, Ross-shire IV22 2LD
In summer, enjoy a lunch of fresh mussels with garlic butter at the Kishorn Seafood Bar (+44 (0)1520 733240).
Local pubs include water’s-edge Badachro Inn in Badachro (+44 (0)1445 741255), which serves deliciously fresh prawns and salmon, and The Old Inn on Gairloch’s fishing harbour (+44 (0)1445 712006), where you can catch live, local music on weekend evenings; they've lots of real ales, too.
The licensed Aroma Café at the sensational Perfume Studio in Mellon Charles (+44 (0)1445 731618) is open 10am–6pm throughout summer (closed January to March). The tasty soups, door-stop sandwiches, home-baked cakes and aromatic coffees and teas will counter any chills; in fine weather, head to a picnic table for some otter-spotting. Around the corner from Pool House is the Bridge Cottage & Café Gallery on Poolewe’s Main Street (+44 (0)1445 781335), a great stop-off for home-made soups and cakes. For afternoon tea, pause in the Inverewe Garden Restaurant (+44 (0)844 493 2225), across the water from Pool House in the National Trust tropical gardens.
The Harrisons are full of information about their local area and can help you organise all kinds of activities. Spend a day getting to grips with Harris hawks (+44 (0)1445 760204). Take a walk to the site of the World War II plane crash. Give the hotel two days' notice and they can arrange whisky tasting at Glen Ord Distillery. In the summer, learn yacht sailing, or go power-boating with a qualified instructor. Take a fast boat to the Summer Isles for a picnic. Visit the Isle Maree: sail across to this second seat of Christianity to see Viking graves. See a porpoise from the 30-foot yacht Ventura (+44 (0)1445 781729).
July Gairloch sheepdog trials (+44 (0)1445 712412) – watch the dogs in action. August Assynt Highland Games Culag Park at Lochinver (+44 (0)1571 844647; www.albagames.co.uk) for highland dancing, piping, and salmon and trout fly-casting championships; Duck Race, when hundreds of rubber ducks are floated down the river in biannual watery madness.
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Go for a unique firelit ceremony at twilight on the shores of Loch Maree; it has to be about one of the most romantic and beautiful places to cement your bond.
The award-winning wedding co-ordinator can arrange a piper or harpist. The bride and groom are presented with a decorative box containing the traditional Hebridean good-luck symbols. The hotel can arrange all the catering and flowers – invaluable considering that significant logistics are involved in such a remote place.
Weddings can be held anywhere in Scotland, and there are numerous sites on the shores of dreamily inspiring Loch Maree; Tollee Bay is a particularly popular spot. A yacht is on hand to take couples out to one of the tiny islands for a private lobster picnic.
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