Lusa Bothy

Lusa Bothy is an old stone building at Ashaig, on the Isle of Skye, renovated into a hideaway for two in a sheltered sea bay of its own on the small, private Lusa Estate, looking across the water to the mainland. It’s a five-minute drive along the A87 from the Skye Bridge.

Inside, the kitchen is handmade from old wooden pallets from the feedstore up at Portree, with door and drawer handles from roe deer, each one different. The panelling was reclaimed from an old country house hotel that burned down, and the shelves in the bedroom are made from a 400-year-old pear tree. There’s a woodburning stove, a sheepskin rug and a copper king-size bed made up in white cotton. Outside are whisky-barrel stave armchairs, a fire pit and a barbecue, and the owners write of otters, seals, deer and white-tailed eagles to watch for along the coast.