Black Tin Bothy

One room, one window, the whole of Broadford Bay

Black Tin Bothy is a studio, and the design does one thing with that: it puts the bed and the living space at the same window, facing the water. Broadford Bay is in front of it and the Cuillin sit behind, which means the weather coming across the ridge is the entertainment on the days you do not go out.

Inside, a king bed, an open living area running into a fully equipped kitchen, a wood burner, and a separate shower room. It is small by design and warm quickly, which is the right trade on Skye in October.

The location is the practical part. Breakish is on the east coast near the bridge, five minutes from Broadford for the shops, the cafés and the fuel, and it puts the Sleat peninsula and the Elgol road within an easy morning, without the drive up and down the island that staying further north involves.

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Location

Where it puts you

Breakish sits on the sheltered east side of Skye, which is the sensible end to stay on if you want to see the island rather than sit behind campervans getting to it. Broadford is five minutes, the bridge fifteen, and Portree about forty.

South is the Sleat peninsula, the green end of Skye, with Armadale Castle and its gardens, the ferry to Mallaig, and Torabhaig distillery, which opened in 2017 as only the second licensed single malt distillery on the island after Talisker. West is the Elgol road, which ends in the view of the Cuillin across Loch Scavaig that most people have seen without knowing where it was taken, and boat trips from the slip run to Loch Coruisk in season.