We were going to take a ferry to some of the islands of the Inner Hebrides today but I’ m still not feeling great so we decided not to push my luck on a ferry on the North Sea and then on a bus on desolate islands with no washrooms around. But I wasn’t going to stay in the coffin, so we set off to see if there was anymore of Oban we hadn’t seen. We knew there was still the Castle but other than that we weren’t sure. Oban really is just a stopping off poin...

We woke up to a miserable day - grey and cool with a forecast of a lot of rain. We decided not to go to the islands. But we did go to the tour operator to find out our options. It was a good thing we hadn’t set our sights on going as all the tors were cancelled due to the weather. The lady suggested we come back tomorrow morning after seeing what the weather was like in the morning so we decided to do that instead of booking it then and there. We walked along ...

We got up to an empty apartment. Even though we said our goodbyes the night before I thought we’d wake up in the morning to see our friends off. But they were so quiet we slept right through. I missed having coffee with Valerie. She and I were the two early birds over the past 2 weeks. We packed up and made our way to our next destination, Oban, pronounced OH-bin. This is a fishing port on the west coast of Scotland. It’s name comes from the Gaelic languag...