Kelvin Hotel Oban
Shore Street Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, PA34 4LQ, United Kingdom
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The flying scotsman
... task of the dance leader quite a challenge as we all start to get confused about whether we are men or women. This may be a traditional Scottish activity, but it sounds decidedly international...the Boston Two Step and the Canadian Barn Dance may not have originated around here. The Flying Scotsman sounds more promising. I'm basically the most uncoordinated person this side of the equator, so I make an absolute hack out of everything, bumping into bemused locals, and ...
Castles and tantrums
... beach. Clearly Angus was so shattered he proceeded to sleep the whole time we were there. Lyla decided to desert us on the beach and run after an imaginary rabbit through fields and lakes, only just avoiding the huge highland bulls which I'm quite sure would have won any confrontation. Then off to a lovely cafe in Appin overlooking Castle Stalker, appreciating I risk sounding 58 and not 39 it was beautiful as you'll see from the photos Justine took, I was ...
Ex LongLoch
... and just to fulfil the stereotype even further we then came home to Heather's house and had an afternoon snooze on the sofa. We didn't enjoy the company of 'I'm just Angus Wilson' as he was asleep from the car to bed and until the morning. A lovely meal cooked by Heather, more wine and bed before our last day in Scotland ...
Big Bowl of Mountains
... for dinner and should hurry on.
Down the other side of this “conglomerate Ben” was a long, long, long, long “road.” Kinlochleven came into view in the valley below at a deceptively early point in the decent. In fact, when I first saw it I figured I would be there in an hour at most, but it just didn’t seem to get any closer, appearing and disappearing as I took the long descent. Bit ******* the knees, but ...
Oban to Fingal's Cave on Staffa & Abbey on Iona
... an idea of their size. A very friendly couple from Australia told us they were there to research her roots. Her people, the Camerons, were sent to Australia during the Highland Clearances. By this time, the sky was clearing. In about 40 minutes we could recognize the island from the pictures we had seen. In the brochure it wasn’t clear that we could land and actually explore the island. (We found out later from a gal in a jewellery shop on Iona, that since ...



