You take the high road and I’ll take the low road

and I’ll be in Scotland before ye!

and here we are. We flew to Glasgow on Saturday, picked up a hire car and drive via 2 ferries to the Isle of Mull. We were hardly out of Glasgow before we were in amongst beautiful scenery and haven’t been out of it in 5 days. We stayed in a hostel just out of Tobermory which was something different for us. The rooms were ensuite, breakfast was supplied in a common room. It was all terrific really, a bit old but really clean and well supplied with everything you needed if you wanted to cook a 3 course meal - we didn’t!  And then the view from the dining room was magnificent - with little black sheep in the paddock!

The isle of Mull is magnificent. Everywhere we went the scenery was stupendous. We had wonderful drives all over the island - on one track roads with passing places - a bit hairy at times. There were some lovely walks as well. Our first night, we had dinner at the Mishnish Hotel as we did for the next 2 nights! Our first day, we had a walk out of Tobermory around a loch and back into town. It was great. 

lily pads over the loch. 

and these are some snaps of Tobermory, a very pretty town all beautifully painted. There were some good restaurants, craft shops and boat tours to visit the smaller islands to see whales and birds. 

After that walk we went to a farm shop at a castle,  which is now a hotel, for lunch then had another walk to see some ruins of a fortress which were just some old rocks but we did see some standing stones and some nice cows. 

Continuing the flower theme.

dad shutting all the gates!

I will have to continue this tomorrow as it doesn’t seem to let me add more photos.