Touring the Outer Hebrides, the Isle of Lewis, Scotland

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Touring the Outer Hebrides, the Isle of Lewis, Scotland - Part 6

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This video is filmed in 4K and is the final part of a series touring the beautiful Outer Hebrides, Scotland in our little white motorhome.
PART 6 - In this final video of the series we move on from Harris to Lewis, where we stay at Ardroil Campsite and explore from there. We visit the huge sands of Uig Bay, the Callanish Standing Stones, the Uig Chessman, the Gearrannan Blackhouse Village, Gary Beach, the Mangersta Sea Stacks, Cliff Beach, Eoropie Beach and the Butt of Lewis Lighthouse. Then sadly the time has come for us to catch the ferry and say goodbye to these amazing Hebridean Islands - however long you have on these islands it will never be long enough! We had around 5 weeks and we still didn't manage to fit everything in that we wanted to see and do. So, of course... we will just have to come back!
I sincerely hope you have enjoyed the series and if so, please could you help us by clicking the like and subscribe buttons, it's completely free to do so and will really help our brand new channel grow. In the meantime we are off on our travels to bring you more adventures which will be coming soon.
Thank you so much for watching.
Barbara and John
PART 1 - we start our journey from Oban, taking the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry to Castlebay, Barra. Our first campsite is Borve Camping and Caravan site and it's from here we start to explore the Isles of Barra and Vatersay.
PART 2 - we move on to Scurrival Campsite, where we discover more beautiful beaches, the ancient Cille Bharra Church and of course the famous Barra Airport where we film the aircraft taking off and landing on the beach - a magical experience.
PART 3 - We take a ferry to the Isles of Uist, where we stay at two different campsites, Moorcroft Holidays and Balranald Campsite, plus a fantastic park-up next to an incredible beach on Berneray.
PART 4 - In this video we travel by ferry from Berneray to Leverburgh on the Isle of Harris, where we spend two nights at Pairc Niseaboist Campsite and explore the local area.
PART 5 - In this Episode we leave Pairc Niseaboist Campsite and treat ourselves to a week's stay in an apartment with stunning views overlooking Luskentyre beach - you seriously do not want to miss this... what an amazing place! We continue to explore the Isle of Harris and make our way to the Hushinish region travelling along a twisty and very picturesque 14 mile single track road. The journey is worth the effort, it was a beautiful drive and we were treated to some spectacular rainbows!
So if you enjoy this first video and the above is of interest to you, then please make sure you subscribe, like and hit the bell, so you don't miss our future episodes.
All music supplied by Epidemic Sound
Thank you
John and Barbara

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@carlyoung6111 Жыл бұрын

Six videos laying out all of the magic of the Outer Hebrides, enchanting musical accompaniment and not a single voice to detract. Thank you.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment, we are so glad you have enjoyed the series. Our videos are all about the beautiful places we visit and we hope they will give other people ideas of where to go.

@jeffwilson9114 6 ай бұрын

Your choice of music is perfect.... thanku so much for posting this😊

@touringforlife9806 6 ай бұрын

Thank you

@danielomalley4394 7 ай бұрын

Beautiful and peaceful series! Not about you, but about your subject: those magnificent isles. Excellent photography (rainbows!), many thanks for taking me along with you.

@touringforlife9806 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment, much appreciated and so glad you enjoyed the series. We loved the Outer Hebrides and hopefully one day we will visit the Islands again!

@davidgallie1365 3 ай бұрын

We’ve just returned from a wonderful trip to Lewis and Harris. We’ve enjoyed reliving our visit by watching your video….. and are now tempted to go back! Thank you.

@touringforlife9806 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment, so glad you enjoyed the videos. One day we to hope to go back to these lovely Islands.

@justinjohnson2501 10 ай бұрын

Holy smokes what a series!!! this should have way more views!! thanks for making these!! we are looking forward to visiting the Outer heberides next summer cant wait!! Thanks again

@touringforlife9806 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for your lovely comment. We are sure you will have a great time visiting the Outer Hebrides and we hope you will have good weather like we had !

@peterscandlyn Жыл бұрын

This whole series has been wicked viewing. What a beautiful part of the world. Thank you for sharing.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment, so glad you enjoyed the series.

@Hundredakerwood439 Жыл бұрын

Another fine example of how to document a trip. So many other You Tubers could learn from watching this excellent series of films. Just can't wait for your next collection.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Wow thank you that is praise indeed, especially as we are so new to KZfaq. So glad you have enjoyed the series.

@Hundredakerwood439 Жыл бұрын

@Touring For Life must ask though.....have you experience in making videos elsewhere?

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

We both have many years experience as photographers but we are both completely new to video - we are really enjoying it though.

@Hundredakerwood439 Жыл бұрын

@Touring For Life Naturals...... So refreshing to see videos that dont feature inane chatter and endless shots of people eating. There is more information in ten minutes of your travelogues than a hour of others

@sebastianconrad6142 Жыл бұрын

Another great watch. Amazing how many rainbows you saw during your trip. Thanks once again for your time in making and posting - really appreciated by this Scotland lover.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you.

@Rugby-pt5qt 7 ай бұрын

We thoroughly enjoyed your Outer Hebrides experience, so much so we have decided to copy your journey in springtime. Not sure if we will have similar blue skies but we don’t care! Thank you

@touringforlife9806 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your lovely comment and we hope you enjoy the outer Hebrides as much as we did. We were so lucky with the weather, hope you are too ☀️🤞.

@robdy1386 Жыл бұрын

Now watched all 6 parts,what a great set with relaxing sound tracks and no comments just a great set of videos and drone footage.I go to the Outer Hebrides every summer and stay for about 3 months it seems another world from home here in Worcestershire.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your lovely comment. How wonderful to be able to spend 3 months there - we definitely need to spend a lot longer next time we visit. There is so much to see and we barely touched the surface, especially with the Uists! It was a real shock to the system coming back to the South East, as you rightly say it seems like another world.

@travelswithtina Жыл бұрын

Loved it - especially the stone circle. What a fabulous trip x

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Tina

@MeinhardRoggisch 11 ай бұрын

Dear Travelers for life - dear John&Barbara - what a double trouvaille for us - primarily a wonderful reminiscence of our Hebrides vacation with a hiking group on the Outer Hebrides in 2008 - last but not least wonderfully decelerating moving pictures together with very suitable relaxing music within 6 parts - a beautiful addition to the "Hebrides Odyssey" by "Cristine M and a codger in a hat" - my wife and I simply have to be born again to emulate you - keep it up - Meinhard & Sigrid from Old-Germany - please excuse our bad English

@touringforlife9806 11 ай бұрын

Hi Meinhard & Sigrid, thank you for your lovely comments and we are so glad you enjoyed our Outer Hebrides series. The islands are truly beautiful and magical. We hope to visit them again one day - second series ? As for your English, it is very good....my German is not so good! Nochmals vielen Dank für Ihre freundlichen Bemerkungen John & Barbara

@duneideann9241 Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful trip you have had Beautifully shot and thanks for the details along the way A magical place. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment and yes the Islands are magical.

@lauraveitch2280 Жыл бұрын

Loved every one of your videos. Both the photography and the background music. Thank you so much.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your lovely comments, much appreciated. Encouragement for our next series coming soon....

@tjipkevanderveen2246 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing❤ I Will make a bustour this summer. When I see your video’s I am looking forward 😊 Greetings from Holland

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment.Hope you have a great trip.

@jennie2104 Жыл бұрын

Great series of videos :) they give off the same relaxing, calm, safe, peaceful vibe that the islands do 😊 Most magical place I’ve ever been. Glad I got to share some of it with you both.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jen, next time we'll go for longer!

@harrythehymersholidays Жыл бұрын

Another beautiful video. You’ve given us lots of ideas for our trip later in the year. We’re looking forward to seeing where you go next. 😊

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you again, so glad to have been of help. Have a great trip.

@colinsutton3640 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful,stunning photography.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your lovely comment, really appreciated.

@boristrouserkov Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this series of films. We’re off to the Hebrides for two weeks this Sept. Your travels have been really helpful - really appreciate the atmosphere you have captured.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment, we hope you have a great trip and good weather!

@mcreilly2 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this beautiful series of videos! So many familiar places and roads from a tour a couple of years ago and a few new places I will try to see when I visit again this year. You must have been lucky with the weather to get so much good drone footage, when I flew mine there it complained it was too windy most flights and returned to the take off point!

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you - yes we were really lucky with the weather, we had very few wet windy days. I Hope you have a great trip when you go again this year and get lucky with the weather too.

@motorroamingaround Жыл бұрын

Just been watching your series of videos through the Hebrides and have to say we’ve really enjoyed them. Your drone footage and choice of music are very good indeed. We’ve recently purchased a DJI Mimi 3 Pro to enhance the footage of motorhome adventures so hope we can get some fantastic shots like yours. Just subscribed to your channel to follow your adventures. Thanks for sharing. Irvine & Karen

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comments and subscribing to our channel, much appreciated. All the drone footage was shot with a DJI mini 3 pro. Hope you have fun with your new drone.

@lisawarden3581 25 күн бұрын

White text is difficult to see on phone size screen but beautiful video! We are heading here in the fall thank you for this really comprehensive video!

@touringforlife9806 25 күн бұрын

Thank you for commenting and thank you for letting us know about the text colour on a phone size screen, we will look into changing this for future videos . We are so glad you enjoyed our video and found it helpful. We wish you a wonderful trip in the fall with good weather.

@cityzens634 Жыл бұрын

Beware the midges between may and September

@fionagrant6793 Жыл бұрын

hello I have recently watched your videos back to back they are wonderful. I have seen many travel videos for the outer Hebrides to see how what it is like, your trips are the best I have seen, the photography and drone views are wonderful... took my breath away, I am desperate to do the same trip. The simplicity of your videos are perfect, no talking at all just bkg music and helpful text locations that's all you need. What time of year did you go please and how long did you take to do the whole trip? Thank you.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your lovely comment, much appreciated. We were actually on the islands for 25 days and we travelled end of August into September 2022. We hope you make it to these stunning islands, we are sure you would love them! We are about to put the first episode of our new video series on the channel within the next week, hope you will be watching. Many thanks.

@eileenjones2469 Жыл бұрын

You’ve given us plenty of inspiration for our trip to the Outer Hebrides in September, it looks amazing, thank you so much for your videos, I’ll certainly be watching them again to assist with my route planning. When you return where else will you be visiting? 🤩🤩🤩

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment. It is so nice to hear that our videos are helping and inspiring other people to plan their trips to these magical Islands. We have just finished a 6 week holiday filming one of our favourite locations here in the UK. We will be putting a short introduction video on the channel soon.... I hope you have an amazing holiday in September.

@OnMyFeet82 Жыл бұрын

I'm going in Sept too and looking for inspiration for my journey! This video is so helpful.

@simonfirth360 Жыл бұрын

WOW. I came across your channel by accident ... so glad I did .... absolutely amazing photos, videos and editing. I've just watched all 6 videos back to back and can't wait for more. We have done the NC 500 and toured many parts of Scotland in our motorhome but these Islands are on another level and you have inspired me to start planning. Could I ask did you book all the ferries and campsites in advance ? You've just gained another subscriber. 😊😊 Cheers.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your lovely comment. Yes we booked both the ferries and campsites in advance. There are limited campsites on some islands and as you can see from the videos some sites are quite small with limited pitches. Its so nice to see that our videos inspire other people to go and explore the beautiful Outer Hebrides...you will not be disappointed! Would we do anything differently?....maybe plan to do a bit more wild camping along the way.

@ianwilmshurst2823 11 ай бұрын

Just come across your 6 part Outer Hebrides trip. Absolutely brilliant, from start to finish. This is exactly how it should be done. Was due to visit the Hebrides 2 year back but unfortunately didn't quite go to plan. You showcased it perfectly my friend, to the point we are adement to start making plans. I believe early September is the best time of year? Are the campsites a reasonable price? To get from Castleford upto isle of Harris is 3 ferries? Thanks for the vlogs.

@touringforlife9806 11 ай бұрын

So glad you enjoyed the series and thank you for your lovely comments. We went early September and it worked well for us and we were so lucky with the weather. In 2022 when we went, the campsites were reasonably priced. As for ferries: 1. Oban (mainland) to Barra 2. Barra to Uist 3. Berneray (North Uist) to Harris 4. Lewis to Ullapool (mainland)

@snoo333 Жыл бұрын

great video work. nice music selection. you must of worked in the film industry.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

We are beginners in videography although we've been photographers for years. Thank you for your lovely comments.

@robtaylor9782 Жыл бұрын

Brilliantly shot videos loved the series, just got out 1st MH a much older Bessacarr 625 (1999) how did you find driving a 6m + van on the narrow roads

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment. We had no problem driving our 6m motorhome on the single track roads. You soon get used to it, less cars about and plenty of good passing points. You need a bit more concentration on some of the more rural roads though! Hope you make it to the Outer Hebrides someday.

@commane21 Жыл бұрын

Is that you at 17.19 taking the photo of the seal? If so, what lens is that? Fabulous videos. Thank you so much for them.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for your comment. Yes that is me and I am using Canon 100 to 500mm telephoto lens with a x1.4 converter ( equivalent to 700mm).

@mrz5705 Жыл бұрын

As a keen AP I use a Canon EOS5D MkIV (& various lenses, Zhiyun gimbal etc). I'd love to know what you use (apart from the drone) as I'm always keen to learn John.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

We have both used EOS 5D MK IV's in the past - it's a great camera. We now use Gopro for the road shots, Canon R5 and R6 for wildlife, special dramatic shots and differential focus. We use our iPhones for the rest of the videos with either a Hohem M6 gimbal or a tripod - Its amazing the quality of phones these days!

@mrz5705 Жыл бұрын

@@touringforlife9806 This is BBC broadcast quality. I will do everything to increase your sub numbers...!!!

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

your a star !!...Thank you

@johnspivey4063 Жыл бұрын

Why is the top of our map of the outer Hebrides missin?……it’s torn away…boom boom..

@molecatcher3383 Жыл бұрын

Uig is the Gaelic form of the Old Norse word "Vik" which means Bay. So calling it Uig Bay is to name it twice.

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for pointing this out - hope you enjoyed the video.

@molecatcher3383 Жыл бұрын

@@touringforlife9806 Your videos are really good.

@scottishalwaysdixie1638 2 ай бұрын

Wrong music choice:-( # bloody 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 RUN-RIG

@mrz5705 Жыл бұрын

Hi again John, I try to watch everything in 4k as I use a 5k iMac plus on a ridiculously oversize 75" QLED HDR10+ TV and immediately spot the amateurs with their GoPros even though they turn out pretty good. I came across this channel and was blown away (a nature channel in Azerbaijan) and I wondered what equipment they were using...Any guesses...? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f6xkYJSkuq7Xkp8.html

@touringforlife9806 Жыл бұрын

I am no expert on making videos or what equipment to use, but in my opinion, it's more about the story telling, composition and variation of shots that make a good video.