Passing Oban I was ready for another stop and nice stroll at Dunstaffnage Caste, an impressive but grim old ruinous walled castle right after Oban. Built around 1220 by Duncan MacDougall, the son of Earl Somerled, known also as the ‘King of the Isles’, Dunstaffnage Castle was built at the height of the battle between […]
Dùn Ad – fort on the [river] Add Discover the Gaelic Kingdom of Dál Riata and the royal centre of Dunadd – a stunningly beautiful hill fort in modern day Argyll, where a footprint in the rock marks the inaugural spot where the Gaelic kings were symbolically married to the land they were to rule […]
I finally arrived at my stop for the night, a lovely Airbnb room in Bellanoch, right at the Crinan Canal. After all these hours behind the wheel, I was up for a walk and my host recommended me to walk along the canal towards Crinan. The canal opened in 1801 and is about 9 miles […]