The Achiltibuie Garden is the new company set up by the team behind the former Achiltibuie
Hydroponicum which closed at the end of 2007. They have recently launched a new website and are currently
working on a new environmentally-friendly visitor centre in Achiltibuie. For more information on The Achiltibuie Garden, click here to go to the web site... or download the press release on this page.
Ullapool Homecoming 2009!
Tillidh Mi Dhachaidh I will return home! As part of the Homecoming Scotland celebrations, Ullapool is bringing home champion pipers, Gaelic singers and Mod medallists, accordionists and guitarists, clarsach players and fiddlers, singer-songwriters and members of several top-class bands; painters, sculptors, illustrators, designers, photographers, jewellers, dramatists and animators. They are all coming home! For more information on Ullapool's Homecoming, click here to go to the web site...
Plastic Bags no more in Ullapool?!
Ross-shire Waste Action Network, in cooperation with Ullapool Tourism & Business Association and the local Community Council are working hard to get a New Year Resolution in place for 1st January 2008! Ullapool is aiming to banish plastic bags from the village. Initial reactions from traders and residents is extremely positive so watch this space for more news...! For more information on ROWAN's work, click here to go to the ROWAN web site...
Bring Madeleine Home
Madeleine McCann was abducted from Praia Da Luz, Portugal on 3rd May 2007. If you have any information about her whereabouts please contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or +44 1883 731 336 if you are outside the UK. Please help.
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A picture tells a thousand words. Truth is, life is rich where the photographs are best. Ullapool and Wester Ross offer riches beyond your wildest dreams.
But nothing that we can show you in this web site can come near to a real reflection of life as it is lived on the west coast. So many things happen here in Dundonnell, in Ullapool, in Achiltibuie…we don’t know where to start...
Should we tell you about the scenery, the mountains, or maybe the golf-course or the gardens. What about the traditional music, or the fishing, and the walking? Have you ever seen the sunsets, the wildlife, the birds? Are you into history, genealogy? Perhaps you prefer the sea, the sailing, a kayak trip, the beaches? Maybe you fancy the swimming pool, the sports centre, the cycling? Have you tasted the prawns, the mussels, the lobsters? Are you for a dram…?
If you have been here before, you will know what we are talking about, but it can’t let you breathe the air, watch the sunset or get the sense of place coming from the young traditional musicians who infect us all. It can’t offer relaxation, the whiff of the sea, the craic in the bar or the sense of space and isolation from a walk in Wester Ross. By its very limitations it cannot achieve more than put a very good idea into your head – don’t settle for the images, come and be very welcome.
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Forthcoming Events
The Glorious Company Summer Celebration!
Ullapool Composer James Douglas and his Classical Ensemble ‘The Glorious Company’ return to the Macphail Centre on July 3rd with a ‘Summer Celebration’ evening of music by Handel, Charpentier, Mozart and James Douglas, with music for Flute, Piano, Soprano Saxophone, Trumpet, Baritone and Soprano. Click on the invitation in the middle of this page for details or
click here to go to the Glorious Company web site!
Walks in & around Ullapool
The leading Scottish Highlands walking guide has launched a free online guide to walks in the Ullapool area. The site offers detailed walk descriptions with photos, free downloadable OS maps, route downloads to GPS devices etc.
Click here to go to the site..
