{"id":6873,"date":"2013-08-11T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2013-08-11T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T17:59:04","slug":"day-1-glasgow-to-oban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=6873","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 &#8211; Glasgow to Oban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: bold;\">Glasgow Airport to Oban<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0My plan is to blog every day (dependent on Internet connectivity) but the majority of the places we&#8217;re staying all boast having wi-fi on their websites. So we&#8217;ll see how well it goes.<\/p>\n<p>For fun, I&#8217;ve come up with a game to play throughout our travels. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Seeking Sarah Shand&#8221;. The idea is, I&#8217;ll post a photo of my book at various locations &#8211; sort of like &#8220;Where&#8217;s Waldo&#8221; but different. You try to guess where the photo was taken and either email your answer to me (for those of you who aren&#8217;t comfortable leaving comments on blogs) or leave it in a comment. There will be clues in the written part of the blog post since I couldn&#8217;t be that mean&#8230; or could I?<\/p>\n<p>This is the route we plan on taking to get from Glasgow to Oban where we&#8217;re spending the night at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.highcliffoban.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">High Cliff Guest House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?f=d&amp;source=s_d&amp;saddr=glasgow+airport&amp;daddr=56.1898767,-5.153038+to:56.0938791,-5.4738011+to:Oban,+United+Kingdom&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=FU1tVAMdJl-8_yELM6oZtYioJCnd4BEBuU6ISDELM6oZtYioJA%3BFbRjWQMd8l6x_ynNg6Z0XnOJSDHBick-wy3L4w%3BFbfsVwMd93ms_y mfFEIsUn-JSDH7casdMhEtfw%3BFbXTXAMduYSs_ynB8d3S0EGJSDE3wo-B_0rdgw&amp;aq=0&amp;oq=oban&amp;sll=56.158661,-4.952351&amp;sspn=1.046259,3.284912&amp;gl=ca&amp;mra=dpe&amp;mrsp=2&amp;sz=8&amp;via=1,2&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=m&amp;ll=56.158661,-4.952351&amp;spn=1.046259,3.284912&amp;output=embed\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?f=d&amp;source=embed&amp;saddr=glasgow+airport&amp;daddr=56.1898767,-5.153038+to:56.0938791,-5.4738011+to:Oban,+United+Kingdom&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=FU1tVAMdJl-8_yELM6oZtYioJCnd4BEBuU6ISDELM6oZtYioJA%3BFbRjWQMd8l6x_ynNg6Z0XnOJSDHBick-wy3L4w%3BFbfsVwMd93ms_ymfFEIsUn-JSDH7ca sdMhEtfw%3BFbXTXAMduYSs_ynB8d3S0EGJSDE3wo-B_0rdgw&amp;aq=0&amp;oq=oban&amp;sll=56.158661,-4.952351&amp;sspn=1.046259,3.284912&amp;gl=ca&amp;mra=dpe&amp;mrsp=2&amp;sz=8&amp;via=1,2&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=m&amp;ll=56.158661,-4.952351&amp;spn=1.046259,3.284912\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/center>Despite not leaving Toronto on time, our flight got in to Glasgow Airport fifteen minutes early, which was quickly eaten up waiting to get off the plane and then at the car rental desk. Our booking couldn&#8217;t be found so they gave us an even better car &#8211; a silver Skoda Astra diesel with a six speed manual transmission. It took me a bit to get used to shifting but the driving bit on the wrong side of the car and road came back straight away. Hubby isn&#8217;t comfortable driving here so he navigates and lets me drive.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t go the route we originally intended and in a way, I&#8217;m glad we didn&#8217;t. The A82 was narrow and bendy enough in stretches and it was always at the most inopportune moments that we met traffic on a bend crowding into our lane.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?f=d&amp;source=s_d&amp;saddr=Glasgow+Airport,+Caledonia+Way,+Paisley,+Renfrewshire+PA3+2SW&amp;daddr=Oban&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=FU1tVAMdJl-8_ynd4BEBuU6ISDELM6oZtYioJA%3BFbXTXAMduYSs_ynB8d3S0EGJSDE3wo-B_0rdgw&amp;aq=0&amp;oq=Oban&amp;sll=55.862824,-4.43305&amp;sspn=0.003053,0.010568&amp;gl=uk&amp;mra=ls&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=56.007595,-4.741974&amp;spn=0.601573,1.039483&amp;t=m&amp;output=embed\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?f=d&amp;source=embed&amp;saddr=Glasgow+Airport,+Caledonia+Way,+Paisley,+Renfrewshire+PA3+2SW&amp;daddr=Oban&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=FU1tVAMdJl-8_ynd4BEBuU6ISDELM6oZtYioJA%3BFbXTXAMduYSs_ynB8d3S0EGJSDE3wo-B_0rdgw&amp;aq=0&amp;oq=Oban&amp;sll=55.862824,-4.43305&amp;sspn=0.003053,0.010568&amp;gl=uk&amp;mra=ls&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=56.007595,-4.741974&amp;spn=0.601573,1.039483&amp;t=m\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/center>The intended route was longer and the A816 was much narrower (according to google street views) so despite running into some heavy rain showers (the heaviest rain always seemed to hit when we were in a bendy, narrow stretch of road just to add to the fun).<\/p>\n<p>On arrival at High Cliff, we couldn&#8217;t check in right away but were able to leave the car there, so we walked down to the town to get a late lunch\/early supper so we could have an early night. Being up since early the morning Saturday, we needed lots of sleep tonight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6881\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/High-Cliff-BB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6881\" alt=\"High Cliff B&amp;B\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/High-Cliff-BB-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/High-Cliff-BB-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/High-Cliff-BB-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/High-Cliff-BB.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High Cliff B&amp;B<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It rained on our way into the town center so we didn&#8217;t walk up to McCaig&#8217;s Tower. We would have gotten drenched had we attempted it. Maybe the weather tomorrow will be more conducive to an up close and personal trip (by car on our way to our next stop.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6882\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/McCaigs-Tower-from-the-harbour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6882\" alt=\"McCaig's Tower from the harbour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/McCaigs-Tower-from-the-harbour-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/McCaigs-Tower-from-the-harbour-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/McCaigs-Tower-from-the-harbour-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/McCaigs-Tower-from-the-harbour.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McCaig&#8217;s Tower from the harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the end, we went for a fish tea at The Caledonian Hotel (the large beige coloured building with the tower).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6884\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6884\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Caledonain-Hotel-from-the-harbour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6884\" alt=\"The Caledonain Hotel from the harbour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Caledonain-Hotel-from-the-harbour-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Caledonain-Hotel-from-the-harbour-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Caledonain-Hotel-from-the-harbour-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Caledonain-Hotel-from-the-harbour-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Caledonain Hotel from the harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While we ate our fish, chips and salad, the rains teemed down. We were glad we were inside where it was dry. There was more than one poor soul walk by looking like a drowned rat.<\/p>\n<p>We waited until it let up and made our way back to the B&amp;B. Rather than lug two heavy suitcases upstairs, we only took out what we needed and put those things in two cloth shopping bags I had packed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6886\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6886\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-rental-car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6886\" alt=\"Our rental car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-rental-car-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-rental-car-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-rental-car-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-rental-car.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our silver Skoda outside High Cliff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">These next pictures are of our room&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6887\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-room-at-High-Cliff-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6887\" alt=\"Our room at High Cliff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-room-at-High-Cliff-1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-room-at-High-Cliff-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-room-at-High-Cliff-1-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-room-at-High-Cliff-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our room at High Cliff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6888\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6888\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-room-at-High-Cliff-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6888\" alt=\"Our room at High Cliff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-room-at-High-Cliff-2-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-room-at-High-Cliff-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-room-at-High-Cliff-2-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-room-at-High-Cliff-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our room at High Cliff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6889\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-rom-at-High-Cliff-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6889\" alt=\"Our rom at High Cliff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-rom-at-High-Cliff-3-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-rom-at-High-Cliff-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-rom-at-High-Cliff-3-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Our-rom-at-High-Cliff-3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our rom at High Cliff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6890\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/View-from-our-room-at-High-Cliff-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6890\" alt=\"View from our room at High Cliff \" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/View-from-our-room-at-High-Cliff-1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/View-from-our-room-at-High-Cliff-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/View-from-our-room-at-High-Cliff-1-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/View-from-our-room-at-High-Cliff-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from our room at High Cliff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And now it&#8217;s time to play <strong>SEEKING SARAH SHAND!<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6891\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Seeking-Sarah-Shand-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6891\" alt=\"Seeking Sarah Shand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Seeking-Sarah-Shand-1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Seeking-Sarah-Shand-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Seeking-Sarah-Shand-1-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Seeking-Sarah-Shand-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seeking Sarah Shand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6892\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Seeking-Sarah-Shand-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6892\" alt=\"Seeking Sarah Shand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Seeking-Sarah-Shand-2-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Seeking-Sarah-Shand-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Seeking-Sarah-Shand-2-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Seeking-Sarah-Shand-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seeking Sarah Shand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So leave me a comment with your guesses where Sarah turned up for these photos, and if you&#8217;re not comfortable doing that, drop me an email (melanie@melanierobertson-king.com).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glasgow Airport to Oban \u00a0My plan is to blog every day (dependent on Internet connectivity) but the majority of the places we&#8217;re staying all boast having wi-fi on their websites. So we&#8217;ll see how well it goes. For fun, I&#8217;ve come up with a game to play throughout our travels. 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