This is maybe a Dad thing, but if there’s an interest in Awesome Engineering, Ben Cruachan is about 20 miles away. Impressive because of the 440 MW hydro electric power stationbuilt inside the mountain. A bus takes you on a 1km trip into (yup, inside) the mountain. When you see the turbine hall, you expect hear the Bond theme and see guys in beige boiler suits abseiling down the side.
fantastic scenery and an osprey nest in the mobile phone tower on the other side of the loch.
BalamoryTobermory’s nice, and the pub where that pic above was taken used to be pretty good, nice day, sit outside enjoy the nothing really happening vibe.
Ferry to Iona (ferry to Mull then drive to Fionnphort(?) is good. car on ferry tends to be expensive, there might be a bus from craignure to Fionnphort The abbey was a bit of a ddisappointment and I wish i’d taken the option of a horse drawn trip round the island (few years back mind, so maybe not there any more). There were dolphins spotted, so the ferry driver took us all to have a look.