50 Cool Cottages in Britain and Ireland

By Vincent Crump. Sunday Times, January 25th, 2009

"The whole finding-a-cottage palaver – it’s fraught with risk.
Unless you book one that we've specially selected..."

LOVE SHACK - 39 MARY’S COTTAGES
"Skye Life on a traditional Scottish croft must have been pretty tough – so let’s pretend. Mary Sim’s four wee “black houses” close to Elgol certainly look the part – wigged with thatch and built with stone plundered from the village school and preacher’s house – and they’re part of the Sim family farmstead, which goes back six generations. Inside, though, you’ll find underfloor heating, lofty “church” ceilings and swooningly romantic box beds. Each cottage can take four – but you’d be mad to share with anyone but your sweetheart. All sleep 4"

Only 6 cottages were featured in Scotland and Mary’s Cottages are the only ones on the Isle of Skye