Oban Wednesday 19 July 2017

 We have anor busy day today so did not worry about brekky just had a coffee in The Mile back to our hotel waited for a cab to the station but walked in the end.  Our train to Glasgow was 9.15 arriving at 10.10 then our train to Oban at 10.37 arriving at 1.45 our hotel just a short walk from the station. The scenery on our journey today was beautiful and Lochs huge.  We saw Loch Awe did not mean anything to us but just while I am sitting here watching “Underground Britain” again they are telling us about this power station which was built in a mountain, the water coming from Loch Awe.  It was dug out by hand and opened in the 50s by the Queen still being used today when London needs power urgently.  It takes one phone call for them to put it into action and this takes less than five minutes to put into action, fascinating really, at night the water is pumped back up into the Loch for reuse.  This is the system our Malcolm Turnbull is proposing for the Snowy.  We set off booked ourselves a trip to Mull and Iona for tomorrow. We had dinner now back at our hotel reorganised ourselves for the next few days repacked etc. long day tomorrow then on Thursday we head to Mallaig. Good night Sabine and Sabine  xx