Kinloch Lodge

Hello everyone, I’m writing this to you from the Isle of Skye!! We arrived here this afternoon on the train from Inverness, which was a really lovely journey through the highlands. We have installed ourselves in our room, which is in a kind of staff wing thing, about a 7 second walk from the kitchen and our place of work. That’s already an excellent saving on transport to work, is it not?

Tomorrow we both start work, I start at breakfast and Hamish starts at lunch time. They operate on a roster system and the shifts are either covering lunch and dinner, or a split shift covering breakfast, lunch or afternoon tea and dinner. The nice thing is that we will get our days off together so we can explore the island a bit.

We met most of the team here tonight and everyone is really lovely. We had an afternoon tea here when we arrived, to have a wee taste of the hotel’s food (it’s really well known for its food), and I have to say the brownies here are wayyy better than mine. SO good. It even had crumbled pistachio on the top.

A bit nervous about starting tomorrow because I have NO experience in the hotel industry, but I will just do my best and go from there.

Kinloch Lodge is the white building in the background, across the sea loch Na Dal. So kool!

Now some administrative information;

- We crossed time zones from Belgium back to the UK, so we are now 11 hours behind NZ.

-The address of the lodge is; (so you can send us lots of letters!!)

Kinloch Lodge
Sleat
Isle of Skye
Scotland
United Kingdom IV43 8QY

-We don’t have cell phone reception here (or at least not in our room). There may be reception up on the hills around the hotel but we haven’t checked that yet. So I guess the best way to contact us is by email (we can access wireless in the laundry room hehehe) or calling the hotel. If you want to skype us, email and set up a skype-date J

-There is a phone right outside our room which you can call, but we will only be there to answer it at night or very early in the morning. That phone number is 0044 1471 833381. If you need to reach us during working hours, the hotel phone number is; 0044 1471 833277.

-Don’t forget to keep checking the blog because I will update it as soon as I can with all the goss and happenings of our tour of Scotland.

Okie dokie?

Lots of love,
Renelle xxx