{"id":19546,"date":"2010-11-04T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/west-cost-islands-of-scotland\/"},"modified":"2010-11-04T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T14:03:10","slug":"west-cost-islands-of-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/west-cost-islands-of-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"West cost Islands of Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a crash on my mountainbike showing the boys from \u00c5ka Skidor Magazine around<br \/>\nThe Scottish Alpine Legend was signed off work for 4 weeks and under \u00a0instructions to<br \/>\nrest rest rest.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3816\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2010\/11\/scotland\/mike-arm\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3816\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/mike-arm-239x321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>boooooo no more bikes for Mike for a while<\/p>\n<p>For me the most\u00a0difficult\u00a0part of a\u00a0serious\u00a0injury is the physiological aspect keeping\u00a0motivated<br \/>\nand posative.<\/p>\n<p>Now any of you out there that know me will know there is one think I can\u00b4t do and it\u00b4s<br \/>\nto sit still so here is what I have been up to. The adventures started on the remote island of<br \/>\nTiree the most westerly island of the Inner Hebrides and would take me to the moroccan<br \/>\ndesert and costal beaches.<\/p>\n<p>To get your bearings have a wee look at this map <a title=\"Tiree location \" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?f=q&#038;source=s_q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=tiree&#038;sll=56.994379,-6.619949&#038;sspn=0.192252,0.617294&#038;gl=uk&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;hq=&#038;hnear=Tiree,+United+Kingdom&#038;ll=56.477662,-6.416016&#038;spn=0.77966,2.469177&#038;z=9&#038;iwloc=A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tiree <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3807\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2010\/11\/scotland\/crw_3986\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3807\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRW_3986-404x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunrise on our first morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3808\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2010\/11\/scotland\/crw_4004\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRW_4004-404x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking back to the west cost of Scotland<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3810\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2010\/11\/scotland\/crw_4015-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3810\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRW_40151-404x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiree&#8217;s\u00a0original\u00a0Harbor<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3811\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2010\/11\/scotland\/crw_4043\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRW_4043-404x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day one&#8217;s beach<\/p>\n<p>The waves were not going to be massive today but the sun was out and the white sand<br \/>\nand blue water made you fell like you were in the\u00a0Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3812\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2010\/11\/scotland\/crw_4192\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3812\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRW_4192-404x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike Ball making the best of the small waves<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3813\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2010\/11\/scotland\/crw_4509\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3813\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRW_4509-404x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike&#8217;s big bro Chris also making\u00a0something\u00a0out of nothing<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3814\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2010\/11\/scotland\/crw_4343\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRW_4343-404x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiree gave us a great sunset as well to top of an amazing day<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3815\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/blogg\/2010\/11\/scotland\/crw_4725\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3815\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alpinelegends.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRW_4725-404x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a house<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not this is someones\u00a0Private\u00a0house.\u00a0The owner can\u00a0only get in via boat as<br \/>\nthe local farmer and he don&#8217;t see eye to eye and have been\u00a0fighting over and\u00a0access<br \/>\nroad for years.<\/p>\n<p>If your think you have to get yourself to this island it\u00b4s a bit of a treck but its\u00a0absolutely<br \/>\nworth it\u00a0. There are flights from Glasgow and Oben every day or if your touring about in<br \/>\na car there are 2 or 3 options on the\u00a0ferries taking around 4 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The hebridean islands are a\u00a0magical places,\u00a0fantastic surf &#038; kitesurf, mountain biking,<br \/>\nclimbing\u00a0and walking, not to\u00a0mention\u00a0world class sea\u00a0kayaking. For me the west cost is<br \/>\nfull of adventure each time I head out there the landscape\u00a0people the food keep amazing me.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye out for my\u00a0Moroccan adventures\u00a0coming\u00a0soon<\/p>\n<p>Scotland Rocks!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a crash on my mountainbike showing the boys from \u00c5ka Skidor Magazine around The Scottish Alpine Legend was signed off work for 4 weeks and under \u00a0instructions to rest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpinelegends.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}