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here’s a new way to explore Scotland’s amazing islands with the Scottish Islands Passport app. The free app uses local knowledge to match your interests with the diverse and unique experiences on 72 of Scotland’s inhabited islands to find your next island adventure. Whether it’s history, nature, food and drink, the arts or outdoor activities which float your boat, with over 700 island experiences, the Scottish Islands Passport is guaranteed to have something to pique your interest. As well as guiding you to the best local sources for practical information on planning your trip, the app lets you save your favourite islands into a wish list for future travel, collect passport stamps for the islands you visit, and save and share your holiday snaps in your very own travelogue.
Hidden gems The Scottish Islands Passport is deliberately designed to showcase some of Scotland’s lesser-known islands alongside their more famous neighbours, meaning there is plenty of opportunity to uncover hidden gems. Discover Easdale with its wheelbarrow haulage system and abandoned slate quarries which host the annual Stone Skimming World Championships; explore the old tracks of Ulva and find out more about how the community is slowly breathing life back into the island after a community buy out; or check out Lismore with its Dutch bakery and seaweed foraging expeditions. Further afield the passport is designed to introduce you to island archipelagos you may not have explored… yet! Discover traditional boat builders in the Western Isles, the UK’s most northerly gin distillery in Shetland,
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