Day Two

We received an absolutely amazing breakfast of cereal, sausage, bacon, toast, eggs, mushrooms, and amazingly good coffee. It was interrupted, however, by a pod of dolphins that came up to play along the shore (one of the neighbors called to apprise us of them). After our breakfast, we left to head north along the coast. We stopped in Oban, a fairly major town along the west to do some shopping. Amy was glad to find the £ Store. We met a MacDougall who directed us towards a Priory where the MacDougall chiefs were buried from the 11th-13th centuries. We drove around and finally found it, but there was a charge to enter and we felt like we should keep heading north, so, we didn’t go in.

We then stopped in Fort William, another fairly major town, and looked around for a while, admiring the Scottish Episcopal Church in town and doing some tourist shopping. We also took a look at a ruined castle outside of town from the 15th century, Inverlochy Castle.

We kept driving north through some beautiful country, and finally arrived in Lochcarron. Our B&B, Lotta Dubh, was actually a bit south of town through some one-lane roads, but when we got there, it was even nicer than the first night’s, although the view wasn’t as nice and the curtains weren’t as heavy—so the all-night light was a little disturbing.

We went back to Lochcarron for dinner at a local pub/inn, and had some really good fish and chips. Again, the people were really nice and helpful. On our way back, after 10, we stopped at another ruined castle, this one destroyed in the early 17th century. It was extremely picturesque, set right on the loch.