Screen Machine is an 80-seat, air conditioned and 3D-ready mobile cinema which brings the latest films to remote and rural areas of Scotland. The cinema tours 33 communities in the Highlands and Western Islands and each tour lasts 6-7 weeks. Screen … [Read more...]
Youth hostels in the Southern Hebrides
If you're island hopping in the Southern Hebrides, or just visiting one island, and you would like to stay in a youth hostel there are various options available. In general, youth hostels are not for the younger folks only by the way, and they are a … [Read more...]
Mull Tips from a Visitor
When I wrote the travel report about Mull a while back one of the readers sent me an email with some additional information. It's always good to get some "inside information" and I have decided to publish vicky's comments here on the blog: "Of the … [Read more...]
Tobermory Distillery Isle of Mull in 1885
Alfred Barnard made an epic journey with some friends in the late 1800s and visited working whisky distilleries in Scotland, Ireland and England. About his journey and distillery visits he wrote a book called ’The Whisky Distilleries of the United … [Read more...]
Touring the North of Mull
It was the last week of February 2009 and we stayed with friends in Lochaline on the Morvern Peninsula. A remote and lonely area with only a few villages, lots of mountains and great scenery, although we missed most of that when we arrived the day … [Read more...]