The Westford Inn, North Uist

Ah Westford Inn, the "old" Westford in prior to 2008 was a majestical place, somewhere where you could go after a hard day's graft and have a nice cold beer and talk to a number of locals about everyday life. Then at weekends you'd be in a pub packed full of happy people with live music and awesome craic.

Unfortunately these days the pub is rarely open and was even shut on the day of the North Uist games, a day where the pub took in the most money for the year.

This is such a shame as this pub was a central hub for the Uist folk, a way of life.

It's quite upsetting to travel to Uist for a few days to enjoy the Wesford atmosphere only to find it shut for the full week.

As someone originally from the Island it's bad enough for me that it's never open. How about the poor people that live on the Island and can't go to their local as it's never open.

They say change is good. Well this is one change that is quite frankly rotten.

26 Jul 2010 22:02