Ines in Edinburgh - Arran Island Trip

igor — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:21:00 +0000

Early Monday morning (5 o’clock), we got up and had a massive british breakfast to keep us going all day. First we went to the Edinburgh bus station where we took a bus to Glasgow. Then we went to the Glasgow central train station where after some big confusion and error made by the train company we managed to miss our train. Well, it wasn’t so bad after all since the bus company paid for the taxi which got us to Adrossan harbour where we just missed our ferry by 5 minutes :( which meant we had to wait for 2.5 hours for the next one.

But after all we managed to cross the 11.5 mile channel between Arran and Scotland and promptly proceeded to the bus at Brodick which took us to our youth hostel in Lochranza, located at the very north of the island. During our 45 minute bus ride we even saw some seals.

After we arrived at the youth hostel we went for a short trip and discovered things nearby our hostel. Basically we saw and hunted many sheep – by the way sheep hunting is great fun – and discovered seals, deer and many interesting birds.

Afterwards we went back to the hostel to enjoy a large portion of pasta and pesto (our standard evening meal on Arran). We were pretty tired after the first day, and I think I was the first one who fell asleep at 9.30 p.m.

Initially we wanted to climb on the Goatfell but bad weather conditions made us change our minds on Tuesday. So we went around the Cock of Arran which turned out to be great fun and the right thing to do considering the bad weather. There are loads of pictures in the gallery from that trip.

On our last day we made a trip around the island with the bus, went to eat at a nice restaurant in Brodick and then started our journey home back to Edinburgh…(bye bye beautiful island)

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Ines in Edinburgh - Arran Island Trip