We had a reservation on the 9:45 a.m. ferry back to Kennacraig so we were up and ready to go fairly early. Breakfast in the hotel was okay again. Yesterday, we decided that we wanted to stop at Inveraray Castle on the way to Loch Lomond since it was right on the route. I purchased tickets online, but had no way to print them out. I asked at the hotel reception desk if they had a business center where I could print the tickets. The clerk offered to let me use he...

When we went down for breakfast this morning, we stopped by the hotel reception desk and asked about getting a taxi tour to take us to the distilleries. The desk clerk offered to make the arrangements for the first ride for us with Carol of Carol's Cabs. We agreed on an approximate time, and then went in for breakfast. By the time we had finished, the clerk had everything set up for us. She told us that we would just need to let Carol know when we wanted to be pi...

Today we had a reservation for the last ferry going from Kennacraig to Port Ellen, so we had quite a while to get to the starting point. However, since we have not been able to make very good time on any of our trips so far, we need to plan for a lot of time to get anywhere. Google maps shows the trip from the hotel to the ferry port as 95 miles and about two and a half hours. Plan for slow, winding roads. When we got in the car to start the day's trip, we saw t...

We had only one thing on the agenda for today--riding the Jacobite train from Fort William to Mallaig. Since Philip has to concentrate on driving and won't have much chance to see the scenery, we planned the train ride to give him a chance to relax, too. This seemed to be the best spot in our itinerary for a train ride, and it turned out to be a beautiful ride. We drove from the hotel and parked in the lot adjacent to the train station. This was one where we had ...

Before leaving Inverness to go to Fort William, I wanted to get gas for the car. It takes diesel and it is a hybrid so it hasn't used much, but it seemed like a good idea to fill up before leaving the biggest city we would see before returning the car to the airport in Glasgow. It was down only about a quarter of a tank. We asked a clerk at the tourist information centre if there would be a petrol station on the way out of town. She said there were none in that d...