A Moist Start on Mull
12/09/17-13/09/17 In Oban the following morning we did some supermarket shopping to stock up on a few essentials before going over to Mull. Our plans were going to take us… Read more »
12/09/17-13/09/17 In Oban the following morning we did some supermarket shopping to stock up on a few essentials before going over to Mull. Our plans were going to take us… Read more »
11/09/17 Barnluasgan is near to the Crinan Canal which was built to allow boats to pass across the Kintyre peninsular without having to take the significantly longer journey around it’s… Read more »
10/09/17 The day on Gigha had been a brief respite from the rain. The following morning it was tipping down again and difficult to believe we’d been chilling on the… Read more »
08/09/17-09/09/17 It was still raining when we left Machrihanish Campsite, but we knew that the following day would be good so we made our way up the west coast of… Read more »
10/09/17 We were in a campsite, stuck vegetating in Bertie due to rain. The biggest event of the day (and it’s a pretty big event as far as I’m concerned) was… Read more »
06/09/17 More rain had set in. Our plans had been to visit Campbeltown, maybe to take a walk to Davaar island and then walk up to the lighthouse on the Mull… Read more »
05/09/17 We woke up to fine weather and so continued with our plan to walk around the coast to Carradale. The intention was to follow part of the Kintyre way to… Read more »
04/09/17 We didn’t get the first ferry from Lochranza, we left it till 10ish to get in the queue. Although we were second in the queue we were waved on first… Read more »
03/09/17 When we woke up on the Sunday morning in Sannox we knew we had to make a decision – would we stay in Arran and hope for some better… Read more »
02/09/17 After a day on the mountain we didn’t feel like doing anything too strenuous so we headed to Brodick. We parked up in the car park by the Mountain… Read more »
01/09/17 Goatfell is the highest mountain on Arran and we had been looking for a suitable day to climb it before we left. Although we had had plenty of decent… Read more »
31/08/17 Lochranza is a village on the northern coast of Arran, set alongside a small sea loch. I don’t know when a bay or inlet becomes a loch, but the name… Read more »
30/08/17 We had parked at King’s Cave deliberately … to visit King’s Cave of course. So the next morning we took a stroll down to the coast to see one… Read more »
29/08/17 There was much excitement the next morning. Paul popped out for his morning cigarette and saw some movement in the water…it was an otter. Not the first otter sighting… Read more »
28/08/17 True to the weather forecast the next morning was wet and miserable. We drove up to Ardrossan and sat in the queue for the midday ferry. The tarmac was… Read more »
27/08/17 We took the plunge and booked our ferry to Arran for Monday. The weather for Monday was going to be pretty dire (again) so we thought we might as… Read more »
25/08/17 – 26/08/17 The next day we thought we would go for a bike ride, there is a scenic trail of just under 40 miles around the Galloway forest which… Read more »
24/08/17 Next up we wanted to head for the Forest of Galloway for some walking and mountain biking. Heading back up to Newton Stewart we took a tip from the… Read more »
23/08/17 We decided to move to New England Bay the following day. There is a large picnic area here right next to the beach and we had seen people wild… Read more »
21/08/17 – 22/08/17 From the Isle of Whithorn we were heading to the Rhinns of Galloway, the word Rhinns (or Rhins) is derived from the Gaelic for point or headland,… Read more »