I haven’t been to Oban since moving from Dalavich back down to kirkcudbright with my parents in 1988, I imagine it’s changed a fair bit in the passing 36 years.
Has McCaigs folly been finished yet?, 😉
I was in whatever Mactavish's is now called last summer to see Darren McGarvey. The start of the show was delayed because everyone including the man himself was watching the sunset over the bay which was very spectacular
Edit Mactavish's is now called The View
I worked in the kitchen, and those were set up with huge industrial sized appliances, They were cooking on a huge scale for the tourist industry. Very busy place.
Food was pretty good as it goes.
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Has McCaigs folly been finished yet?, 😉
Nope. The hydropathic sanatorium isn't finished either, and they started building that before the folly.
Just don’t call it a folly.
At the moment we have turned our attention to Alnwick …so, should I move there? 🙂
You should probably start a new thread. This one's turned into a weird, nostalgic reminiscences of Oban thing - 'I flew over it once, it looked nice from the air / I overdosed on heroin there and the hospital was nice / it's okay if you own your own helicopter sort of thing'.
Fwiw, my fly-by experiences of Northumberland are that it's sparsely populated, the mountain biking isn't great, it has awesome beaches and puffins. For me it's nice for a holiday, particularly the coast, but I'm not sure I'd want to live there.
I'd be listing my location priorities rather than sticking virtual pins in maps and doing some careful thinking. On the face of it, for example, I could live in Keswick, but the summer tourist invasion would drive me nuts, it rains a lot and it's very expensive.
Anyway, I once drove through Oban and it seemed okay... 🙂
