4 hours is a long drive for a Scot, apparently. And that’s why Oban, on Scotland’s mid-west shore, brings mainly tourists to its wee hamlet of 10,000 souls. Oban’s ferries run hourly to the Inner Hebrides where hardy folk inhabit clan mansions and feed on whatever the day’s catch might be. Temperatures here are akin to Vancouver Island’s Westcoast — somewhere in the mid teens C. Local wool shops are busy all year around. But it’s some of the most gorgeous countryside we’ve seen and feels a lot like St. John’s, Newfoundland. And home.
I snapped the photo below at a petrol station. Truckers’ laundromat, we think.
