Wednesday in Oban

Noel and I separately are early risers. Today we distinguished ourselves by being late for 8.30 breakfast. We are on Holidays!

After breakfast we set off to look at the ruined castle , Dunollie, along the waterfront from our b and b. We discovered a house built in 1745 and added to with a bigger house in the 1800s. It has had a turbulent history as the seat of the chief of the Mac Dougall clan. The older house had some interesting displays about life at various times and some of the chiefs. We climbed up to the ruined castle and returned via a path through fields and woods to the back of Oban and then back here.

Later we walked into  Oban town and up the steep hill behind to a structure known locally as McCoy's Folly or on the maps as a tower. It is  a  circular stone wall some 20 to 30 ft high and about 40 yards across with several rows of arches with nothing other than trees and grass in the middle.

We had some delicious mussels for dinner. They were small but tasty, soft and not at all chewy.