One last breakfast and early morning on Mull; one more lichen covered boulder -
and then we went to catch the 11.10 ferry to Oban, in order to catch the 12.10 train. Only ... the ferry was over half an hour late getting into Craignure, where we had to board it. Obviously we would miss our train ... but we held out some hope of catching the 12.55. Only ... a couple of sea miles outside Oban we had to stop for ten minutes or so in order for the Waverley to clear the harbour. The Waverley is magnificent - the last sea-going paddle steamer in the world. So ... we disembarked and crossed over into the station just in time to see the very rear end of the 12.55 disappearing out of sight.
Pause for head scratching. We had another train to catch from Glasgow to Edinburgh at 4.30 or so ... and the next train to Glasgow from Oban was at 4.10. Weirdly, the buses follow the same time schedule as the trains. So I tried my best charms on a taxi driver, who couldn't take us - Alice tried another, who said they weren't allowed to - then my driver said Well, he'd try a mate of his ... and ten minutes later, David turned up, in a very large, clean minicab, and drove us to the door of our Edinburgh hotel - not only was he a great driver, and a lovely man, but stopped off so that we could see St Conan's Kirk, on Loch Awe.
This was a truly lovely late Victorian masterpiece - I'd never heard of it, but if you're in the area, do go ...
We were so relieved to get to Edinburgh on time to check into our hotel, and walk from the New Town to the Old for an excellent Indian meal and back ...
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