Duart Castle Isle of Mull

... look round a castle. We make several stops along the way for photographs and wind up at the castle late afternoon.   Duart Castle is relatively small and is easy to get round within about half an hour, so we do that and decide to take the route up ...

... to get some provisions and then made the 45 minute journey - through the countryside to the cottage. I am impressed with Mull already, waterfalls, valleys, woods and mountainous scenery.   Joan and Ian gave us a wonderful welcome when we ...

... off, to be especially opened for inspection exclusively for our group, so we spent the day cruising the waterways of Mull heading for Duart Castle, arriving about 5pm and although still showering the sea had abated. Duart Castle is the home of the Clan ...

... to Tobermory to tow themselves in with their tender and outboard. Thursday 4 ========== Today we took a bus south to Duart castle. This is a genuine clan stronghold dating from the 11th cent and controlled by several clans until Jacobite times when the ...

... was reputedly first brought to Scotland, was well worth a visit so we set off from Craignure (where the ferry stops on the Isle of Mull a place where there is nothing but a souvenir shop worth seeing!) to quickly head down to the southern most tip of the ...

... up being okay because we got some great pictures from up there and I earned them because I had to fight the intense wind. Duart Castle is still occupied by the Clan MacLeans and the Chef of the clan still lives in the castle. It sits on ...

... let down. It did not look very castle like and Emma and I decided that we would not go in. It does have a fantastic view of Duart Castle in the distance though. Thant was the last stop of the trip and we headed back to the hostel dropping off the car on ...