Sunday 12 May

Somehow we never manage to get away on time!

Didn’t matter today because it’s the “long slog” up to Oban ready to catch the ferry tomorrow afternoon.  However as a variation from the usual Carlisle, Glasgow, Crianlarich route the satnav offered via Jedburgh, Edinburgh and Stirling so we went that way!

Weather not very cooperative, showers most of the way so a quick comfort stop at Jedburgh then a late lunch at Linlithgow where we also visited Aldi to get some of their latest bargains (bits for Bertie). A steady run over familiar roads, we were aiming for a campsite just south of Oban where we have stayed before. However approaching Connell we remembered it was all grass and as there had been a lot of rain it was perhaps not the best place. We stayed at a CC site just north of Connell a couple of years ago so headed there instead and were squeezed onto almost the last available space with a very nice view across the sound to Mull – between the heavy showers that is!