The Hebrides are a remote group of islands to the north-west of Scotland. The weather there can be wild and windy, and in the winter it is sometimes difficult to cross the stormy waters between the islands and Scotland. This means that people on the islands were sometimes isolated in the past. These days there are ferries and planes to the islands. I decided to visit the island of Tiree. It’s one of the nearest islands, but there is only one ferry a day, and it was a long, four-hour journey.
Tiree is quiet and beautiful. There aren’t many cars on the island, and when I visited the primary school the children were having a special lesson to teach them about traffic. This is important for the children if they go to the mainland. At the secondary school there were only foty-two students. On the smaller islands of the Hebrides there aren’t any schools, so the children must go to school by ferry. Sometimes, if the weather’s really bad, they can’t go home.
I stayed in Tiree’s one town, Scarinish. There aren’t any shopping centres or cinemas here, but a mobile cinema sometimes comes from the mainland. At the youth club, teenagers were playing traditional music. Some of them were speaking Gaelic, which most people in Britain can’t understand. The community is traditional, but it is also very active and alive. Tiree is a great place for sport. There’s a windsurfing championship every year in October.
TRANSLATION
Les Hebrides es un grup d' illes en el nort-est de Escocia. el temps que hi ha es tormentos, i en l'hivern avegades és dificil travessar les tormentoses aigues entre les illes i Escocia. Això vol dir que la gent de les illes avegades has estat solitaries en el pasat. Aquests dies hi havien Ferris i avions que van a cap a les illes. Jo vaig decidir visitar l'illa de Tiree. L'illa que esta més apro, pero només hi ha un ferri al dia, i es un viatge llarg, quatre hores.
Tire es tranquil i bonic. no hi han gaires cotxes en l'illa, i quan vaig visitar el col·legi els nens tenien una lliçó especial per ensenyar-li's el trafic. Aquí es important que els nens vagin a terra ferma. En el secundari hi havien només 42 estudiants. En la petita illa de Hebrides no hi han escoles, per aixó els nens han d'anar a l'escola en ferri. avegades el temps es molt dolent, no poden tornar a casa.
Jo estic en una ciutat de Tiree, Scarinish. Aquí no hi han centres comercials ni cinemas, però un cinema mobil avegades vé de Escocia. En el club els joves toquen musica tradicional. parlen Gales, que molta gent e Bretanya no enten. La comunitat és tradicional, però també és molt activa i viva. Tiree és un gran lloc d'esport. Hi han campionats de windsurf cada any e Octubre.
