Machrie Hotel & Golf Links Port Ellen

... is to sign up with the distilleries beforehand. Joining up with Classic Malts (www.malts.com) gives you free entry (normally £5 or so), and with Laphroiag (http://www.laphroaig.com) they give you 1 foot square of land, plus your rent (a miniature cask strength whiskey)<br><br>Robert seemed to really enjoy the new scenery, but was a little unsettled at night as all the travelling was breaking up his routine.<br><br>For eating out ...

... sober, so after a text message poll to fellow sailors, I settled upon a pint in The Victoria. Book, beer and a view across the harbour; can't beat it.<br><br>Next time I'll check the contours on the map before having a pint - hill over to the Arran ferry was a bit steeper than I thought!<br>

... on top. It&#8217;s not posted yet, but look for us standing by the side of the road. Also there I finally got to see some of the shaggy island cattle that show up on postcards. Kildalton Cross is one of the few remaining intact Celtic crosses. It dates from the 8th century. The Laphroaig tour was fun, led by a local girl now at uni in Glasgow, with a small tattoo on her wrist and lots of black bracelets. Bill got to sign his name in the ledger that ...

... the simplicity of the liveaboard lifestyle and the friends that we made during our sojourn down to Greece and Turkey. We will always recall the thrill of dropping the pin in a new anchorage and then seeing a boat and crew that we recognise. We have indeed been very lucky. We hope that the photos in this blog give you some notion of why we love being here in Kintyre ...

... place, the main section of the causeway goes right out into the ocean like a manmade dike. With the paltry information presented, we also discerned that, when Scotland and Ireland were part of the same landmass, the causeway was seated in a valley between the two. We hypothesized, as no information was given, that since the time of formation either plate tectonics separating the two islands of Ireland and the ...

... 30 miles). Les arrêts en Land rover mis a dispo dans le cadre des interventions n'étaient donc effectués que pour les courses. Toutes idées de sortie citadine se fesaient donc à velo (ce qui était loin d'être une promenade de santé avec un temps qui peut changé du tout au tout en deux minutes). On realisait des travaux d'aménagement principalement, et ...

... years and as an avid reader of this blog, I know will now be blushing! Anyway, returning to the point, whilst we are not gardeners, nevertheless we do enjoy visiting fine examples such as Benmore, they make for a super morning out. The plan for the afternoon was to return to the Kyles of Bute and whilst we were readying ourselves, our neighbour in a power boat called Cemac kindly offered us the use of his mooring, close to the ...

We woke to a beautiful, sunny morning and after a lazy breakfast, set off down the remainder of West Kyle and then 'round the corner' into Loch Fyne and sailed and motored across to the lovely little town of Tarbert, some 15 miles in all. Tarbert is a fantastically well sheltered anchorage, a 'hurricane hole' if it was in the Caribbean. It has a visitors pontoon that we ...

This is just a shortish note to wish all our friends a seriously good Christmas and a happy, healthy, prosperous and satisfying New Year. We are still ensconced in our cosy wooden lodge at West Loch Shores inTarbert and are both working. Gina is doing training stuff with a hotel on the Cowal peninsula which involves commuting to work across a wild and windy Loch Fyne once or ...

... been completed, and all equipment ready. The plan is to do France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Italy, and Switzerland all in 2 1/2 - 3 months on about 12,000 pounds all up bvetween us. Already a big chuck of that money has gone on Inter-Rail tickets, which I can't workout how that's going to work without having to pay extra charges on top of that. But we'll ...