Scotland

While on my trip home mum had arranged for a trip to Scotland for a few days.

So Tuesday Morning we went to Stanstead to catch a flight to Glasgow. The flight was with Ryan Air. I hear people give them a hard time for hidden costs and poor service but really as a budget airline I found them fairly good. I mean you do have to pay for everything, and i mean everything including checking in to your flight, but it still cheaper than flying with some of the other airlines.

The trip up was pretty smooth and once in Glasgow, we pick up a car and headed towards Oban.

Scotland being Scotland had fairly changeable weather. We arrived to over cast skies, by the time we reached the bottom of Loch Lomond it was raining, but after stopping for some food it cleared.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I spent a bit of time taking photos and then carried on up the side of the Loch, stopping at Tarbet to take some more shots. The weather stayed fine. 

As we headed on again slowly the rain came back on the drive but again by the time we got to Oban it had cleared.

Went for a walk around the town to get information on what else to do while here and have some dinner. While we were eating the rain came back, but fairly quickly passed.

In the evening we went to McCaig’s Tower. Built in the last years of the 1800’s , it was commissioned by John Stuart McCaig. He was an esteemed banker and land owner in Oban. He had seen that a good number of he local masons had very little work over the winter months so he commission a memorial to be built for his family. It was only worked on in the winter months and took 7 years to build. It offers splendid views over the town and nearby Isle’s