Part 3 of the Scottish Trip
On Wednesday (Day 3) we drove quite a way from our house up to Oban with the aim of boarding the ferry at 12.30pm, along with the return ferry at 7.30pm. that gave us a few hours to explore the Isle of Mull.
As often happens, you could view the weather as either being awful, wet and windy or you can enjoy and rejoice in the scenery and see the awesome number of waterfalls cascading down the hills and mountains. We chose the latter and did most of our exploring within the dry of the vehicles.
There were quite a number of highlights along the way, including a close up encounter with some Highland Coos. Yes, I spelt that correctly! Coos!!
Now for those of you who were with me in the vehicle, you are probably asking, "When did you take that picture, Tim?" The answer was in a restaurant a few days later but at the time I was driving and was unable to take any photos of the coo encounter we had!
Another highlight on the Isle of Mull tour was a brief stopover in colourful Tobermory, the main town on the island.
Whilst I was wandering along the High Street I came across a shop selling ceramics. This led to a telephone discussion with Elaine, my wife, as the colours were the ones she so loves. Thus meaning, that the ceramics market in Tobermory is spoken for so we can cross the Isle of Mull off our potential house move list! (Not that we were considering it!)
I should, at this point, say a hearty thanks to my fellow drivers Jonathan and Andrew who did such a terrific job driving, particularly Andrew who drove both ways and on the island! Kudos to you sir!!
This brings us to Day 4 (Thursday) where we moved from driving long distance to cycling short distance on a bike tour around Glasgow on 'elephant bikes'. The Elephant Bike brand, sells former postal workers’ bikes, refurbished in prisons, under a ‘buy one, give one’ scheme. This was launched after it was discovered that red Royal Mail bikes supplied to game park rangers in the African country made elephants, well, see red, so under the refurbishment they are now repainted green. Bikes continue to be shipped to Africa, particularly Malawi, which holds a place in my heart having been there in 2016.
We cycled a massive 9 miles on these bikes passed the Tennants Brewery, through parks, passing the 'squiggly' and 'squinty' bridges on the Clyde, to the Clyde distillery, to Glasgow University and enjoyed our introduction to Tunnocks Tea Cakes!
With that amount of sugar in us, you will not be surprised we made it back to our starting position before a swift walk along to the train station to catch a train to go to Loch Lomond.
Our final activity for the day was to climb on a boat for a one hour cruise on Loch Lomond before catching the train back to our house and a table at a nearby pub for our evening meal.
Good times, but for all the organising and co-ordinating, I found it pretty exhausting, hence Part 4 to follow.
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