Wolfgang goes to Scotland

After a showery and blustery night, we awoke at an extremely soggy campsite, had breakfast, packed up and left for the ferry from Lochranza to Claonaig. We took the thirty minute ferry across to the Kintyre Peninsula and headed for the Seafood Shack at Skipness and enjoyed an early lunch of fish-finger roll and smoked salmon roll, with the silhouette of the ruined Skipness Castle in the background. We then drove through showery rain and torrential downpours on a single-track road but with plenty of passing places, 15 miles to Carradale Bay and the campsite. At this point, the sun was shining and we walked around the campsite to choose our pitch. Although we could have had a pitch with great sea views, we decided it was too blustery. So we choose a more sheltered pitch which is very spacious. Highlight of the afternoon was a red van which drove around the site with a lady from Kintyre Fisheries selling fresh fish and seafood from the back of the van! We selected, scallops, mussels, salmon fishcakes and a specialty of an Asian/Scottish fusion of salmon pakoras which came highly recommend by fellow campers!

The views from Carradale Bay across to the Isle of Arran and back to the mainland of Kintyre are spectacular.Read more