Category: Miscellaneous

We drove yesterday to the port town of Oban, along highways and windy narrow roads. KLS was a bit hair-raised, but with many stops we made it in time for lunch.

Oban is a popular tourist destination, and departure port for the many Hebrides islands. It was sunny and warm yesterday and the visitors were out in droves.

In addition to the bevy of souvenir shops down near the water, we also climbed to the overlook above the town to visit McCaigs Tower, a fanciful construction financed about 100 years ago by a wealthy man to honour his family.

Our B&B is out in the country on a quiet single-lane road, surrounded by sheep and cows. It’s incredible quiet and peaceful here.

But I’m not sure the sheep enjoy the visitors 🙂

Big trip coming up today: on many boats and coaches. We’re going island-hopping…

It’s so easy now to travel. A few clicks on websites, a drive to the airport and next thing you’re on the plane. The whole trip from our door to our Glasgow hotel was about 14 hours and couldn’t have been easier.

The hotel itself is pretty wild, and first impressions were that it seemed we were stepping into the set of 2001!

The room is small (cozy?) and comes with an iPad that wirelessly controls lights, the blinds, the TV, AC, everything. The lights in particular are extremely adjustable:

Also the room comes with blackout curtains because of the long days. It was light when we went to bed and when we woke up!

We didn’t do much other than the explore the shopping district yesterday, which was busy and loaded with people. The weather was warm and bright, with rain only coming in early in the evening.

Today (it’s Sunday morning) we’re planning to go full-on tourist and visit some attractions. And that will start with a bacon sandwich…

Tomorrow we’re going to Scotland!

We’re going to be focusing on the west and north of the country: the highlands and islands and more remote regions. We’re looking forward to rocky coasts, beautiful scenery and lots of rain 🙂

Eventually we’ll end up in Orkney, which will be the northernmost latitude we’ve ever visited and will have over 20 hours of sunlight!

Needless to say I’ll blog as I can, although given some of our hotels have already told us they have no cell service this may not be daily! As usual though you can expect to follow our exploits here…

…and in your mailboxes 🙂