McCaig's Tower Oban

... 'dram' I had to physically stop him from dancing around in excitement! For lunch we hiked up Jacob's ladder to McCaig's Tower.  Apparently, some rich guy McCaig noticed that some stone masons were unemployed during the winter months in the area, ...

... I picked up my first fish and chips in Scotland and walked up Jacob's Ladder (a really steep stairway) to get to McCaig's Tower. This philosopher/artist/banker paid unemployed stone masons to build this monument to his family and it kinda looks like the ...

... Hebrides islands and the whole Argyle coast. It has it's own Malt Whisky Distillery as well as a quirky monument called McCaig's Tower which looks like a mini Colosseum that was built by local stonemasons on behalf of an obviously rich local business ...

... attraction on top of the hill we decided to walk up and see what it was all about.  It turned out to be the McCaig's tower this was build in 1897 by local banker John Stuart McCaig, the aim of the tower was to provide work for local ...

... have stayed so far. Our view was right out at the harbour. We decided before dinner to walk around Oban and we went up to McCaig's Tower on the hill overlooking the city. It resembles the coliseum in Rome, Italy but on a much smaller ...