Scotland Magazine

The Eas-y life

Sometimes my wife Kristina and I teasingly say we’re going to get our passports, have a holiday, and go across to the island of Easdale.

On a Saturday in summer it feels like the beginning of an adventure, and we’re spoiled since it’s hardly far from our home on the neighbouring Isle of Seil, but in truth it’s an easy enough journey for anyone visiting the west coast and staying anywhere close to Oban: nor do you even need the comfort and ease of a car.

The little bus from opposite the railway station in Oban trundles down several times a day to cross the famous‘Bridge over the Atlantic’ to Seil, before winding its way on to Ellenabeich, from where you catch the ferry

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