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Dolphins at north end of Isle of Mull following Offshore Connection Rib.
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Aspen Lodge, OBAN, United Kingdom, HD review
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Surrounded by the beautiful Scottish countryside, Aspen Lodge is 2 miles from Oban, the railway station, and Oban Ferry Terminal, with regular connections to the spectacular Inner Hebrides.
Each room at Aspen Lodge features free Wi-Fi, an en suite bathroom with bathrobes and free toiletries, an iPod docking station, and well stocked tea/coffee making facilities. Some rooms also boast a balcony with scenic mountain views.
Breakfast is served daily and guests can find shops, pubs and restaurants in Oban, 5 minutes’ drive away.
Boasting easy access to outdoor activities and free parking, Aspen Lodge is also 40 miles’ radius from Loch Lomond and from the historic Highland settlement of Fort William. Glencruitten Golf Course is 1 miles from the property.
Places to see in ( Inverness - UK )
Places to see in ( Inverness - UK )
Inverness is a city on Scotland’s northeast coast, where the River Ness meets the Moray Firth. It's the largest city and the cultural capital of the Scottish Highlands. Its Old Town features 19th-century Inverness Cathedral, the mostly 18th-century Old High Church and an indoor Victorian Market selling food, clothing and crafts. The contemporary Inverness Museum and Art Gallery traces local and Highland history.
Inverness meaning Mouth of the River Ness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. Inverness is the administrative centre for the Highland council area, and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Inverness lies near two important battle sites: the 11th-century battle of Blàr nam Fèinne against Norway which took place on The Aird and the 18th-century Battle of Culloden which took place on Culloden Moor.
Inverness is the northernmost city in the United Kingdom and lies within the Great Glen (Gleann Mòr) at its north-eastern extremity where the River Ness enters the Moray Firth. At the latest, a settlement was established by the 6th century with the first royal charter being granted by Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim (King David I) in the 12th century. The Gaelic king Mac Bethad Mac Findláich (MacBeth) whose 11th-century murder of King Duncan was immortalised in Shakespeare's play Macbeth, held a castle within the city where he ruled as Mormaer of Moray and Ross.
Inverness College is the main campus for the University of the Highlands and Islands. With around 8,500 students, Inverness College hosts around a quarter of all the University of the Highlands and Islands' students, and 30% of those studying to degree level.
Inverness is linked to the Black Isle across the Moray Firth by the Kessock Bridge. It has a railway station with Abellio ScotRail services to Perth, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Thurso, Wick and Kyle of Lochlash. Inverness Airport is located 15 km east of the city and has scheduled flights to airports across the UK including London, Manchester, Belfast and the islands to the north and west of Scotland. Inverness is connected to London Euston by the Caledonian Sleeper, which departs six times a week and by the Virgin Trains East Coast operated Highland Chieftain to London King's Cross which runs daily.
Alot to see in ( Inverness - UK ) such as :
Urquhart Castle
Caledonian Canal
Cawdor Castle
Ness Islands
Inverness Cathedral
Clava cairn
Chanonry Point
Inverness Castle
Plodda Falls
Beauly Priory
Castle Stuart
Falls of Foyers
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
Whin Park
Inverness Leisure
ScotNature
Northern Meeting Park
The Steeple
Old High Church, Inverness
Dolphin Spirit Inverness
Castle Gallery
Ship Space
Merkinch Local Nature Reserve
Farraline Park
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Oban Live 2019 - Skerryvore featuring Oban High School Pipe Band
Introducing Oban Live 2019 - tickets on sale at 12pm, Saturday 10th Nov.
Mossfield Stadium, Oban - 7th & 8th June 2019
A film by Dòmhnall Eòghainn MacKinnon, featuring Oban High School Pipe Band and pipers Martin Gillespie and Scott Wood from trad-fusion band Skerryvore, one of Scotland's finest musical exports.
Oban Live, Argyll's biggest outdoor live music concert, takes in the unique sights and sounds of Scotland's west coast town of Oban in this stunning two minute film. The event, which transforms Mossfield shinty pitch into a stadium sized concert arena for two days, welcomes visitors from all over the world who come to see an eclectic all star line-up of traditional, folk, rock and pop artists in a unique west coast setting.
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Bothwell Castle is the largest and finest 13th century stone castle in Scotland, much fought over during the Wars of Independence.
Located in a beautiful setting overlooking the River Clyde, part of the original circular keep of Bothwell Castle survives.
The mighty medieval castle of Bothwell was built on a bluff above a bend in the River Clyde. Construction was started by Walter of Moray some time in the latter half of the 1200s. Invasion and repeated siege meant that the original design of the castle was never completed and what you see today is largely the work of the Earls of Douglas in the years around 1400.
Bothwell Castle is roughly rectangular in shape. Its west end is occupied by the remains of the massive circular donjon or keep. The donjon has been described as The finest piece of secular architecture that the Middle Ages have bequeathed to us in Scotland.
The east end of the castle comprises the great hall and the south east tower. The angle behind the great hall was, until about 1700, home to the north east tower, a large square tower built around 1400 to replace the siege-damaged donjon and considerably taller than the surviving south east tower. Only its base survives.
Walter of Moray's original design for Bothwell Castle can be traced from foundations visible in the grass to the north of the surviving structure. The donjon would have formed one angle of the castle, with circular towers on the site of the south east tower and to the north of the remains of the north east tower. Further north still would have been a strongly defended gatehouse with two circular towers. Curtain walls would have linked together the resulting polygon, producing a magnificent castle occupying an area of over 1.5 acres.
In 1296 wider events overtook Walter's son, William Moray of Bothwell. Edward I invaded Scotland (see our Historical Timeline) and captured both William and Bothwell Castle. By this time only the donjon and the neighbouring prison tower had been completed, connected by a short length of curtain wall: what the English captured would have looked a little like a circular tower house.
The Scots besieged the English garrison in Bothwell Castle for 14 months in 1298-9, only taking it when the defenders had succumbed to famine. In August 1301 Edward I came again to Bothwell Castle, bringing an army of 6,800 men and a high siege tower called a belfry, specially constructed to allow attackers direct access to the top of the donjon. The resulting siege lasted little more than three weeks before the English took the castle for the second time.
The English surrendered the castle to the Scots after the Battle of Bannockburn in June 1314, only to retake it yet again in October 1336 when it became the headquarters of King Edward III during his invasion of Scotland. In March 1337 a Scots army under Sir Andrew Murray of Bothwell, whose ancestral home this was, recaptured the castle: though in the process they destroyed the western side of the mighty donjon, leaving it much as you see it today.
By the late 1300s the castle had passed to the Earls of Douglas. They set to work to restore and extend Bothwell Castle, and in the quarter century to 1424 they constructed the north east and south east towers, the range between them including the great hall, and they connected it all together with the curtain walls.
Bothwell Castle was the property of the Crown through much of the 1500s, and in 1669 it passed to the Earls of Forfar. In the late 1600s they abandoned the castle in favour of Bothwell House, a large Palladian mansion built just to the east of the castle. Ironically this suffered from mining subsidence and had to be demolished in 1926, to be outlasted by the castle it replaced.
In 1935 Bothwell castle was placed in the care of the State, and today it is cared for by Historic Environment Scotland.
Places to see in ( Isle of Iona - UK )
Places to see in ( Isle of Iona - UK )
Isle of Iona is a small island in the Inner Hebrides off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland. It was a centre of Gaelic monasticism for four centuries and is today known for its relative tranquility and natural environment. It is a tourist destination and a place for spiritual retreats. Its modern Gaelic name means Iona of (Saint) Columba (formerly anglicised Icolmkill).
Iona lies about 2 kilometres (1 mi) from the coast of Mull. It is about 2 kilometres (1 mi) wide and 6 kilometres (4 mi) long with a resident population of 125. The geology of the island consists mainly of Precambrian Lewisian gneiss with Torridonian sedimentary rocks on the eastern side and small outcrops of pink granite on the eastern beaches. Like other places swept by ocean breezes, there are few trees; most of them are near the parish church.
Iona's highest point is Dùn Ì, 101 metres (331 ft), an Iron Age hill fort dating from 100 BC – AD 200. Iona's geographical features include the Bay at the Back of the Ocean and Càrn Cùl ri Éirinn (the Hill/Cairn of [turning the] Back to Ireland), said to be adjacent to the beach where St. Columba first landed.
The main settlement, located at St. Ronan's Bay on the eastern side of the island, is called Baile Mòr and is also known locally as The Village. The primary school, post office, the island's two hotels, the Bishop's House and the ruins of the Nunnery are here. The Abbey and MacLeod Centre are a short walk to the north. Port Bàn (white port) beach on the west side of the island is home to the Iona Beach Party.
Iona Abbey, now an ecumenical church, is of particular historical and religious interest to pilgrims and visitors alike. It is the most elaborate and best-preserved ecclesiastical building surviving from the Middle Ages in the Western Isles of Scotland. Though modest in scale in comparison to medieval abbeys elsewhere in Western Europe, it has a wealth of fine architectural detail, and monuments of many periods. The 8th Duke of Argyll presented the sacred buildings and sites of the island to the Iona Cathedral trust in 1899.
In front of the Abbey stands the 9th century St Martin's Cross, one of the best-preserved Celtic crosses in the British Isles, and a replica of the 8th century St John's Cross (original fragments in the Abbey museum). Visitors can reach Iona by the 10-minute ferry trip across the Sound of Iona from Fionnphort on Mull. The most common route is via Oban in Argyll and Bute. Regular ferries connect to Craignure on Mull, from where the scenic road runs 37 miles (60 kilometres) to Fionnphort. Tourist coaches and local bus services meet the ferries.
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Scotland's Islands
Check your local public television station for this Rick Steves’ Europe episode or watch it on We'll begin on the tranquil Isle of Iona, where Christianity first reached the shores of Scotland. Then we'll visit another of the Inner Hebrides, road-tripping across the Isle of Skye, where we'll explore Iron Age forts, peat fields, a venerable distillery, thatched crofter huts, and the dramatic Trotternish Peninsula. Finally, we'll sail to Orkney — more Nordic than Celtic — with its stony remnants of a thriving Iron Age civilization and evocative reminders of the 20th-century wartime harbor at Scapa Flow.
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Oban Bay Hotel Oban
The lure of the sea should tempt you aboard a leisure cruise for some whale, dolphin and seal spotting or fit in some sailing, diving or bird-watching. There's plenty to do on dry land, too, walking, cycling or golfing. A good location for exploring Mull and Iona or for enjoying the holiday town of Oban. (KB 06/07)A traditional building with modern additions.The lobby is small and traditional.This hotel truly lives up to its name, as it is located on the town promenade directly beside the water. Oban is a lively, colourful, and yet peaceful place. Links to the public transport network can be found in about 500 m.The hotel is housed within a former private house built in 1875. From the lounge of the outdoor steam bath area, guests may enjoy breathtaking views over the islands along the west coast. The hotel also offers spectacular views of Oban Bay and the Firth of Forth. Renovated in 2006, it combines a high level of appointment with quality service. Guests may make use of the restaurant, the bar, the public Internet connection, and the room service.This hotel is in a prime position on Oban's Esplanade with an uninterrupted panorama of Mull and Kerrera. Catch the best sunsets from our sun lounge or from the comfort of our spa's outdoor hot tub. Make Oban your Highland centre to discover the attractions and activities of Scotland's western coast and islands. The hotel offers a Spa, where one can choose their own personal health and beauty treatment from sports or aromatherapy massage, facials, manicures and pedicures, waxing and other beauty treatments. The lure of the sea should tempt you aboard a leisure cruise for some whale, dolphin and seal spotting or fit in some sailing, diving or bird-watching. There's plenty to do on dry land, too, walking, cycling or golfing.A good location for exploring Mull and Iona or for enjoying the holiday town of Oban
The Great Outdoor (TGO) Challenge 2019 Hike EPISODE FOUR [SCOTLAND]
This is a NEW SERIES called “TGO Challenge 2019”. This series covers my recent coast to coast hike I did in Scotland with my good friends Darwin, Bigfoot, Matt Favero, Steve, Trystan, Joe and the Blackalachian.
We began our 220 miles coast to coast adventure across the Scottish countryside on May 10th and completed our challenge on the east coast on May 23rd.
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Scotland with Julia Reams-Giersch | Rick Steves Travel Talks
In this travel talk, Rick Steves' Europe travel expert Julia Reams-Giersch describes Scotland's top stops — from the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, to the nearby sights of Stirling and St. Andrews, to the rugged Highlands near Inverness and the lovely islands near Oban and the west coast — and explains practical travel skills, including pointers on sleeping, eating, and transportation.
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Recorded on March 3, 2018 • Rick Steves' Europe Travel Center
Written and Presented by Julia Reams-Giersch
Produced by Cameron Hewitt
Filmed and Edited by Zen Wolfang
Photography by Julia Reams-Giersch, Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli, Cameron Hewitt, and others
Graphics by Heather Locke and Rhonda Pelikan
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Ultimate Coastal Camp! - Solo Scotland Wild Camp - Part 5/5
My final night and this ultimate coastal camp was by far the icing on the cake!
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Day 5 and the final night of my solo Scotland wild camp journey.
After a night of bad weather the night previously, I took a chance and found a stunning stretch of coastline. The evening was cold throughout the night but despite intermittent showers, the evening was perfect, apart from the intrusion, which I later found out was the navy training!
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Sightseeing holidays, West Scotland
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Offering some of Scotland’s best scenery, the Isle of Skye is understandably popular. Narrow, twisty roads wind around Skye in the shadows of craggy, bald mountains, and the coastline is ruffled with peninsulas and “sea lochs,” or saltwater inlets. Visit for more information about this destination and other destinations in Europe.
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Scotland Coast to Coast 2012 - The Finish!
Me crossing the line at the Isle of Glencoe Hotel to complete the 105 miles of the 2012 Scotland Coast to Coast Racer in a time of 12hrs 45mins 15secs! What an experience...a tough, tough day.
Places to see in ( Isle of Barra - UK )
Places to see in ( Isle of Barra - UK )
Barra is an island in the Outer Hebrides,Scotland, and the second southernmost inhabited island there, after the adjacent island of Vatersay to which it is connected by a short causeway. In 2011, the population was 1,174. The area of Barra is roughly 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi), 11 miles long and 6 miles wide. The main village is Castlebay (Bàgh a' Chaisteil). A single track road runs around the coast of the island where the flattest land and houses are, the interior of the island is hilly and uninhabited.
The west of the island has white sandy beaches backed by shell-sand, machair and the east has numerous rocky inlets. Kisimul Castle at Castlebay is on a rock in the bay, giving the village its name. A smaller medieval tower house, Dun Mhic Leoid, can be found in the middle of Loch St Clare on the west side of the island at Tangasdale. The highest elevation on the island is Heaval, halfway up which is a prominent white marble statue of the Madonna and Child, called Our Lady of the Sea, which was erected during the Marian year of 1954. The predominant faith on the island is Catholicism and the Catholic church dedicated to Our Lady of the Sea is immediately apparent to all who arrive at Castlebay.
Other places of interest on the island include a ruined church and museum at Cille Bharra, a number of Iron Age brochs such as those at Dùn Chuidhir and An Dùn Bàn, and a range of other Iron Age and later structures which have recently been excavated and recorded. Barra is connected by a causeway to the smaller island of Vatersay, population 90.
Barra's tiny airport, near Northbay, uses the beach called An Tràigh Mhòr (The Great Beach) as a runway. Planes can land and take off only at low tide, so the timetable varies. Voted the world's most stunning landing spot, Barra's airport is claimed to be the only airport in the world to have scheduled flights landing on a beach.
Ferries to Oban, Lochboisdale, Tiree and Eriskay are run by Caledonian MacBrayne. Castlebay is the main port from which ferries sail to Oban on the Scottish mainland, Tiree and Lochboisdale (Loch Baghasdail) in South Uist. The mainland crossing takes about 5 hours. A vehicular ferry travels between Ardmore (An Àird Mhòr) and Ceann a' Gharaidh in Eriskay (Èirisgeigh). The crossing takes around 40 minutes.
The fish factory, Barratlantic, in Northbay is a major contributor to the island's economy and the Hebridean Toffee Factory in Castlebay is one of the few manufacturers on Barra. Tourism provides the main income for the majority of islanders; the high season lasts from May to September. Thousands of people visit the island every year, the busiest times being during Fèis Bharraigh & BarraFest in July. The Dualchas Heritage and Cultural Centre is located in Castlebay, next to Castlebay Community School. It has various exhibitions each year, and is open throughout the year.
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Lamlash & Holy Isle - Sailing Scotland - Ep. 98
We do not see Lamlash at its best, but we are sailing to a schedule and we need to be in Campbelltown for a good weather passage across the North Channel. Sailing out of sight of land (because of mist - land was only 5 miles away)
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The 500 - The West Coast. The Route 66 of Scotland.
This is the west coast section of 'The 500'. The Route 66 of Scotland. The Wester Ross coastal road.
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Maybole bypass Project - Flythrough visualisation
This video is a Visualisation of the A77 Maybole bypass project. This project involves the construction of a new off-line bypass of the town of Maybole and associated junctions to connect to the existing A77 Trunk Road.