Day tour of Mull and Iona

Ferries run several times daily back and forth from the islands and Oban. Buses of tourists cross Mull, traveling from one port to the next. Both conveyances also carry older schoolchildren to Oban and back once a week, because of a lack of secondary schools on Mull and Iona. Indeed, everything and everyone on the… Continue reading Day tour of Mull and Iona

Kirknewton, April 2022

Having adjusted to the time, we boarded a midday train from King’s Cross Station. We headed north (Peterborough, York, Darlington, Newcastle, Berwick-upon-Tweed) to visit family in a beautiful valley in Northumberland, near the Scottish border. Our niece and her husband live in a family compound with her parents, Richard’s brother Mike and sister-in-law Enid. It… Continue reading Kirknewton, April 2022