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Loch Loyne on the background   Since a couple of years ago it became tradition to travel somewhere nice for our birthdays. Thanks to my boss I even get an extra holiday day for this special event. So last year we took a full week off and went to the world famous Isle of Skye. This article is my selection of the best things to see in Skye.         Eilean Donan Castle The weather was gorgeous an we took our time to very slowly drive up from Stirling to Skye via Fort William stopping plenty of times on the way to admire the landscape. We finally got to see the legendary Eilean Donan Castle (featuring in Highlander and the Bond movie The World is Not Enough ) just before arriving on the Isle of Skye.  We had rented a little flat on the Sleat peninsula which is in the South East of the Island. It's a little far from the most famous touristy sites but considering the size of the island we would have had to drive a fair bit wherever we stayed. We were, however, only few hundred meters