Category: IRELAND/SCOTLAND 2026

Our last day on Islay, and we get to play this terrific golf course just one more time. The mowers are on the 18th green just outside our window, and it looks to be shaping up for another fantastic weather day. Breakfast hits the spot once again……..can’t say we have been served anything but great…

We are touring and relaxing today, planning to hit the BIG 3 distilleries just outside of Port Ellen, but first we have to stop in to the ferry terminal to see if we can somehow wangle our way onto the early morning ferry back to Kennacraig in a couple of days. Our plans are to…

Our first round at The Machrie is this morning. We have a fantastic breakfast at the hotel and an interesting chat with Mabel who has been working here for years……she tells us of some pretty dark times, when the hotel and golf course were struggling to make a go of it, but new ownership revived…

We have a very early start this morning, heading up the dong to Kennacraig to catch the morning ferry over to Islay (eye-la)………..Sibylle is on time with bags packed and instant coffee in hand so we hit the road right away. If memory serves me correct, the ferries always serve up a pretty mean breakfast,…

We have a couple of travel days ahead of us as we embark on the “Places I haven’t been in Scotland Tour”. By tomorrow evening we should be bedded down in the village of Macrihanish on Scotlands west coast, and will follow that up with a trip over to the Isle of Islay (eye-la). But…