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

[estiel.livejournal.com]

The extent of my jealousy is matched only by my gratitude for the links.

Someday--if I live long enough. The spoiled darling whose picture is above (pouting about being on the kitchen counter next to the sink because it signifies a bath is coming) keeps me from making *any* long trips. My May trip to the UK this year is 10 days long, and I worry; I already wish I hadn't booked it.

There's a castle there where members of my family are supposed to be able to stay for free. Or anyhow, the earlier master allowed us to do so. The current one decided we were too numerous, I guess, and disavowed the connection.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Which part(s) of the UK are you visiting?

[estiel.livejournal.com]

It's the Tolkien Sarehole Mill weekend. I'll be staying with TS friends near Birmingham. We also plan to see Ian McKellan in 'Lear' and the LOTR musical; hence, the longer trip.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Alas, we're not planning to go there - too many other things on! But I hope you have a good time.

I do know the Mill fairly well - I used to live nearby.