An airport that actually uses the beach as a runway? That´s the airport on the Isle of Barra – and there are actually three runways marked in the sand, so the planes can land no matter from which direction the wind comes. View over Traigh Mhòr towards the airport buildings. The planes come in from […]
After spending a night near Oban I was ready for my first ferry ride of that summer – off to Barra I went. It would be the first of many many ferry rides this summer! View towards Oban from the ferry – a view that I got quite used to last summer. Oban is also […]
After a day of strolling around Glasgow I picked up my rental car and started driving towards Oban for my first ferry – but already had planned to stop at The Hill House in Helensburgh near Glasgow. Commissioned by Glasgow book publisher Walter Blackie, up-and-coming architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and artist Margaret Macdonald worked collaboratively […]