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So after ten years of running the Bed and Breakfast Di & David have decided to completely retire. The Old Manse has come a long way since we bought it…
So after ten years of running the Bed and Breakfast Di & David have decided to completely retire. The Old Manse has come a long way since we bought it…
In the first of a 6-part blog series, David C. Weinczok takes you to Kilmartin Glen, Argyll, accompanied by original artwork from Pamela Scott: Printmaker. Kilmartin Glen is one of…
The World Stone Skimming Championships 2019 will take place on Sunday 29 September 2019 on Easdale Island, near Oban in Argyll, Scotland. The Pre-Skim Party On the Saturday night before the event, there…
The Old Manse gets a mention in the Sunday Times on 14 July 2019. Link here if you have a Sunday Times subscription.
The readers of the influential travel guide Rough Guide voted Scotland as ‘the most beautiful country in the world’, beating Canada to the number one slot.Kilmartin Glen is “off the…
Its that time of year when bluebells are changing the colour of Kilmartin Glen. Bluebells spend most of the year as bulbs underground in ancient woodlands, only emerging to flower…
A great local event is the World Stone Skimming contest on Easdale island, this year its on Sunday 23 September 2018, with a restriction on 350 entrants. The event was started…
The UK government is looking into booking websites and its about time. In our experience these sites are nothing but ripoffs and we are trying to stay away from them,…
Our bird feeders are outside the breakfast room window and presently you can see gold finches, siskins, sparrows, chaffinch, dunock, yellow hammer, redpoll , and linett to name a few.