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

[lalwendeboggart.livejournal.com]

That sounds a fantastic trip. Very nice people up there too. One of my brothers took his motorbike up to Mull one year. He broke down in the middle of nowhere and a local farmer picked him up, took him into town to get the necessary part and then put him up for the night. Next day my brother got up and fixed the bike - the farmer told him just to leave when he was ready, no need to lock the door.

Very sensible not driving all the way up there, though!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Even better than our small accident in Shetland, when we damaged a car wheel at a filling station. A neighbouring workman patched it up, and was delighted when we offered him a tenner.