Mull

[wellinghall]

In nine weeks' time, we're going to Scotland!

On Friday 27 April, we'll be getting the sleepr from Euston to Glasgow, like this:
http://www.firstgroup.com/scotrail/content/caledoniansleeper/index.php
http://www.seat61.com/CaledonianSleepers.htm

and then going onto Oban, also by train. Then it's onto the ferry to Mull:
http://www.calmac.co.uk/mull.html

where we pick up a hire car.

We're going to stop in a self-catering flat in Tobermory ("Balamory", for those of you with small children) for a week, and (among other things) take wildlife tours like this one:
http://www.torrbuan.com/frames.htm

Then it's on to Iona for three days:
http://www.argyllhoteliona.co.uk/homef.htm

whence we will go to:
http://www.fingals-cave-staffa.co.uk/staffa.asp

and
http://www.fingals-cave-staffa.co.uk/treshnish.asp

and then back to the mainland, for three days in Oban:
http://www.kilchrenanhouse.co.uk/

While there, we hope to go here, familiar to many stranded Arthurians:
http://www.inveraray-castle.com/Pages/content.asp

and also here:
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kilmartin/kilmartinglen/index.html

before we come back home by the same route we used to get up there.

Comments

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I'm jealous. I had half-planned to take another Highlands bike trip at Easter, but decided on reflection to wait until the summer (doing both would be stretching it a bit!)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

We'll let you know how we find Argyll.

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

I know that the mainland part of Argyll is wonderful. I took the ferry to Dunoon and then followed the National Tourist Route up to Oban, and it was a glorious road for motorbikes; gently twisting wooded hills. (Although the last bit was done in a downpour, but that's just Scotland.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I've never been to west Scotland before (save for Glasgow, which in my considered opinion is a dump) - I am very much looking forward to seeing it. Apparently the train line from Glasgow to Oban is very impressive.

We trust you are all well?

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Yes, all is well here! I'm sure you'll enjoy western Scotland; Wester Ross is an extraordinary place if you ever get a chance to go there. And the Northwest Highlands. And in fact all of Scotland that I know above the Glasgow/Edinburgh line, come to that...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Edinburgh itself is nice; as is (are?) the Borders.