Scotland 2014 From Edinburgh to Luing

  As an early-bird I was at the bus station St Andrew Square early Wednesday morning, waiting for the bus to Oban.

Two important words in Scotland on 18 September: Yes and No. The question in the referendum is "Should Scotland be an independent country?" 

 I like travelling by bus and by train. You can sit in peace and quiet, watching the landscape, reading a book, talking to other passengers and someone else takes the responsibility for the traffic. The trip between  Edinburgh and Oban took us through beautiful landscapes and nice villages.

These bare mountains are similar to those of Arjeplog, which I love so much. Arjeplog is the place for our family holidays nearly every year in northern Sweden. Unfortunately not this year, and I certainly miss it.

A touch of the sea - soon in Oban.

Oban Bay

I didn´t expect so much of Oban - I like countryside more than cities. But Oban was a nice town, as a crescent around Oban Bay.

And what does a teacher do on her holidays?
Of course she chooses to travel by the schoolbus with the high school pupils. But that was only nice. The pupils wore school uniforms, which is quite strange for our Finnish students. Those, who didn´t wear the uniform, wore at least the right colour of their school: Orange ties and black and white clothes. I did not take any photographs, that would have been rude. Many of these pupils had a very long school day: schoolbus, ferry, postbus.

And now at last on the isle of Luing, at the ferry place at Cuan Sound.

 

You can see Blackmill Bay, where I stayed, on the western coast of Luing.

And now I´ve come to Blackmill Bay, my home for a couple of days.