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I fancy a trip to Mull and D&G but looking at the maps it seems like a ballache to get to either from either, am I missing something or not ?
No, I don't think you're missing anything. I grew up in D&G and had inlaws who lived on Mull for many years.
.I don't get your quandary...
Maybe leave one for another time ?
I did Mull When i went to Strontian last year,
The ferries are somewhat interesting time wise
The one that runs from Lochaline to Fishnish starts at 10 am no probs there
The one from Tobermory to Kilchoan is a funny one,
last boat back on a Saturday or was it Sunday 4pm and its first come first on basis
If its full , its a trek back to cragnuire to get the later boat, i think 8pm is the last boat,
Miss that and its camping with the locals
I did the shorter loop round the island, with a stop at Duart castle , to look for the Nantesville in Loch Huron
From there i went clockwise round the island, opting for the right turn at the junction and heading to Salen, and then on to Tobermory
I got to Tobermory at about 2pm, so had time for a spot of lunch, and icecream and a chat to the locals
I avoided the cemetery on the hill, you get duffed up if you go there
Kilchoan back to Strontian is a nice if not long run
Would i go again ... yes i'd do the longer loop next time
I fancy a trip to Mull and D&G but looking at the maps it seems like a ballache to get to either from either, am I missing something or not ?
The isles is certainly more appealing, Jura and Islay have been on my to do list for a while, Mull I've done but is so good I wish to return, possibly next week, may do D&G this week.
I don't understand. What does that mean please?
LOl, you saw that reference, but missed the other
"a stop at Duart castle , to look for the Nantesville in Loch Huron"
There's more. The castle was used as a location in the 1945 film I Know Where I'm Going! (as "Castle of Sorne").
It was also featured in the 1971 film When Eight Bells Toll, starring Anthony Hopkins and in the 1999 film Entrapment, starring Sean Connery (who has MacLean ancestry on his mother's side) and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
It is also the setting for the base of Buffy Summers in the first half of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
The byre at the House at Grasspoint which was rebuilt from a ruin, post WWII by Sir Lionel Leslie, Winston Churchill's late cousin, was used as the fisherman's cottage in When Eight Bells Toll,
https://www.isleofmullselfcatering.co.uk/index.php/2017/01/31/movies-made-on-mull/
I fancy a trip to Mull and D&G but looking at the maps it seems like a ballache to get to either from either, am I missing something or not ?
Try going across Asia, Russia