As I said in my introduction to our Grand Tour, the nice lady was keen to visit Oban but Bev said she remembered it as a run-down touristy location. So, we all bundled into the car and drove there to see what it was really like. And we were all pleasantly surprised. It was a busy, thriving town in a very pretty location, overlooking the island of Kerrera, with Lismore and the mountains of Morvern in the distance.
We all wanted to visit McCaig's Folly or Tower, which is a well-known local landmark on a hillside above the town. Commissioned by John Stuart McCaig, a wealthy baniker, it is a miniature version of the Colosseum in Rome, with a circumference of about 200 metres using 2 tiers of arches. The structure was completed in 1902.
Unfortunately, the weather was rather wet and windy, but we had some lovely spells of sunshine so managed to walk round McCaig's Folly and view the town in it's full glory before the rain returned. Bev took a photograph from the Folly looking out to sea.
We had a scrummy lunch before leaving Oban, then drove back home via a very wet and misty Glencoe.
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