Eskadale will comfortably accomodate five couples or a mix with some children. There are five bedrooms on the second floor, four with queen sized beds, one with twins and each with en-suite bathroom and an extra shower in the hall. There is a full basement with a bedroom for the cook if she is to stay at the house and a laundry room for your convenience.

The cheerful housekeepers run the house. They come in each morning and make the beds, clean, set the fires, etc. If you choose to hire a cook, these ladies can return in the evening to help in the kitchen and dining room and turn back the beds. The cook, groceries and staff hours in the evening will be will be at your expense. Please let us know if you wish to have a cook and we will be happy to arrange it for you. You can plan your own menus but generally wonderful traditional local fare is hard to beat. For example, specialties include lamb with red current jelly or mint sauce, venison, salmon wrapped in puff pastry with hollandaise, pheasant with bread sauce, and roast pork stuffed with apricots, prunes and garlic. Of course, what is a good meal without a wonderful ending? The favorites of the house include raspberry Pavlova, sticky toffee pudding and fruit tarts. Most puddings are served with fresh double cream or ice cream. Unless you're climbing mountains everyday, plan to gain from your experience! All of this is cooked on the large red Aga in the kitchen. It's known as the heart of the house as it's always warm.

Eskadale is in an area steeped in history and romance. Once there you will feel transported to another time and are sure to fall in love with the whole of the Highlands! The natural beauty of Scotland will enchant you everywhere. There are beautiful glens to explore with unlimited picnic spots and you are well equipped with a rather large picnic basket for such occasions. There are Glen Affric, Glen Cannich, Glen Strathfarrar, and a wondrous place called Guisachan where Lord Tweedmouth developed the Golden Retriever breed. It is now a ruin but worth seeing. It is said that Churchill learned to drive an auto there!

For casual walkers, there is a lovely little old Catholic church and cemetery about a mile and a quarter from the house. For the more ambitious, there are numerous beautiful walks of varying degrees of effort in the area, including walks across Scotland from near Skye to Affric. Something to please everyone! Castles abound with Brodie Castle and Cawdor Castle nearby and well worth a visit, as is Culloden Battlefield where the proud Highlanders fought and lost their last battle with England.

Also available in the area are excellent sporting opportunities. Given enough notice, fishing, shooting, and stalking can be arranged through a local agent and for the golf enthusiast, there are several excellent courses. Royal Dornoch and Tain lie less than an hour to the north and Nairn, where the Walker Cup was held in 2000, is about the same distance in another direction.

Alex and Pamela Quattlebaum split their time between their home in Charleston, South Carolina and Eskadale House and are convinced they have the best of both worlds. They love to share their home with family and friends and feel that Eskadale is at it's best when full of people. We know that you and your family and friends will enjoy the good times in a very special part of the world.

© Alex Quattlebaum