Isle Of Lewis Vacations & Sundays
The typical vacation of spending hours on end sunbathing on the beach is quickly becoming far less popular than it once was. As more and more folks become conscious of the risks of overexposure to the sun more folks either take extra precautions like using high factor sunscreen while others choose to spend their vacation exploring other cultures and interesting ways of life. While the UK might not strike you as being a drastically different culture thereto of us of America the differences are often startling, none more so than the Hebridean culture of the Isle of Lewis and other islands of the Outer Hebrides. One of the very first things that strike you about the Isle of Lewis is that the strict adherence to the principles of the "Wee Frees" which ends up in most places being closed on Sundays (the Sabbath). Confusingly the term "Wee Frees" is used in reference to the members of two rather different churches (more obvious if you understand the theology), the Free Ch...