Changing Plans

Arriving in Glasgow on Saturday, we quickly found our hotel and were able to get into our room before Noon.  After eating some lunch, we walked over to the Queen Street Train Station to buy tickets for the train to Oban.  However, the train only runs part of the way because the track is out. So this morning we took a Citylink bus to Oban.

Here is the Buchanan Bus Terminal at Glasgow, Stance 54. The bus driver warned us that if we didn't behave she would put us off the bus, or start singing to us, which would be much worse.
We wandered around Lock Lomond with a steady rain most of the way.  We passed Inveraray Castle, the ancestral home for the Duke of Argyll.  It also was featured in an episode of Downton Abbey.

We have arrived in Oban and are staying for the night at the Kelvin Hotel, with a view of the ferry dock.

Again, plans have changed.  Thanks to the remains of hurricane Maria, just now arriving on the Scottish coast, the ferry service is disrupted.  Both the large ferries to the Island of Mull and the small ferry to Iona will not be running.  The weather report predicted gusts could be up to 70 MPH.  Fortunately the hotel is not busy, so we can stay here for another night, or two, if needed. 

The cottage on Iona will have to wait.