Edinburgh and then over to Mull advice please

[bluesky]

We're spending a weekend in Edinburgh at the end of July and then driving over to Mull for a few nights, then onto Glasgow to see family and then home.

Should we book our ferry over to Mull? Or are they quite frequent? It will be main school holidays. Or I did think shall we leave the car on the mainland and go across as foot passengers as I don't suppose we will need the car on the island?

and bring your English/Polish dictionary .

Oh, we've found some toons by doing that, My2wee!

Oh, yes, indeed.

Some were good, some were like something out of 'The Wickerman' .

my husband's an Edinburgh native, FWIW, and not a posh one. he can chat up a brick wall.

when he gets a bad feeling about a place, we hit the road and don't look back!

mine is a doonhamer (from dumfries) so real wickerman country!!!

i've not heard the 'chatting up a brick wall...' for ages.

there are some really gorgeous wee villages over on the west coast though.

there are some lovely villages.

but some places in fife definitely aren't .

at some point we need to put together a list.

for a while there, we had a good one, but it was done by chippy.

as in, this toon has only one chippy, and it is shite. NEXT.

we've need a tie breaker at the mo'.

the two worst chippies were: the one in the high street of pitlochry, at the edge of toon as you head towards Blair Atholl.

HORRIBLE and the proprietors seemed to hate Scottish people and when DH went in to order, they asked him if he were 'drunk like the rest of them'.

erm, the man drinks a beer and a dram at Hogmanay and that's about it.

but hey ho, it's October and the only chippy open and the one in Blair Atholl where we were staying (which is also VERY bad) was shut, so he orders.

Oh.my.god.

it was dire. unedible.

the other, anselmo's in dunoon.

fish like shoe leather and cold chips.

best not to mention fife at all! you'd better get driving if you are going to be homeless soon.

ps bluesky - sorry for getting off thread topic

the hut at the ferry terminal in oban is a good one.

Oh, soem of the best fish & chips I've ever had were whilst waiting for the ferry at Oban.... saddos that we are, we still talk about them they were SO GOOD .... [drool emoticon]

it's going to be fish and chips all week then by all accounts! Not complainin'!

The self-serve restaurant at the green welly is utterly fantastic, not too far from Oban.

I famously went arse over tit on the little bridge next to The Green Wellie! Its our last stop before Glen Coe and also first stop for petrol on the way back down!

Oh, and the wee road all down Glen Orchy is beautiful, following the river down the valley after the bleakness of Rannoch Moor.

2weegirls - nowt wrong wi doonhamers

very true saltire - had my eyes opened to a whole new part and people of scotland when i met DP.

Dumfries and galloway is a part of scotland that gets forgotten about. Everyone raves about teh Highlands, or the Borders or Edinburgh, but parts (not all) of Dumfriesshire are lovely.
I'm not actually a doohamer though, i come from Dumfriesshire, but more over to the east of the region. To the east of Gretna, heading towards the borders. sort of

you are right it does get forgotton about. we spent a week at rockcliffe touring all over visiting all the places that DP went to in his childhood, sandyhills, criffel, wigtown, gray mare's tail etc. and the weather is much better there too!